Patagonia Times: A strip of ice that holds in place an Antarctic ice shelf the size of Santiago’s Metropolitan Region has broken at its narrowest point, according to photos released this weekend by the European Space Agency (ESA). The condition of the ice bridge connecting the Wilkins ice shelf to an island off the Antarctic Peninsula had deteriorated steadily over the past year. In March 2008, following the loss of a 400-square kilometer chunk of ice from the shelf, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) …