It has been a really bad week for the ice shelves of the quickly warming Antarctic peninsula, the part of the vast frozen continent that extends northward toward South America.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Biloxi and west of Gautier. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,225 at the 2000 U.S. Census. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city of Ocean Springs had a population of 17,442.
Ocean Springs is located at 30Â°24â²36â³N 88Â°47â²51â³Wï»¿ / ï»¿30.41000Â°N 88.79750Â°Wï»¿ / 30.41000; -88.79750 (30.409948, -88.797422). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.2 square miles (39 km 2), of which 11.6 square miles (30 km 2) is land and 3.6 square miles (9.3 km 2) (23.57%) is water.