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An icefall feeding into the Lambert Glacier, Antarctica Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica.At about 80 km (50 mi) wide, over 400 km (250 mi) long, and about 2,500 m (8,200 ft) deep, it is the world's largest glacier.
There are about 198,000 to 200,000 glaciers in the world. [1] ... The following is the list of longest glaciers in the non-polar regions, ...
It is the longest glacier in the world outside of the polar regions. [1] The maximum thickness of the glacier is 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), and the volume of the glacier and its dozens of tributaries is estimated at 144 cubic kilometres (35 cu mi)—about a third of the volume of Lake Erie.
The glacier's melting waters are the main source of the Nubra River in the Indian region of Ladakh, which drains into the Shyok River. The Shyok in turn joins the 3000 kilometre-long Indus River which flows through Pakistan. Thus, the glacier is a major source of the Indus [52] and feeds the largest irrigation system in the world. [53]
Brüggen Glacier, also known as Pío XI Glacier named by Spanish explorers after a Pope, is in southern Chile and is the largest western outflow from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Now about 66 km (41 mi) in length, it is the longest glacier in the southern hemisphere outside Antarctica. [ 2 ]
The core of Ngozumpa glacier, and emerging Spillway lake. The Ngozumpa glacier, below the sixth highest mountain in the world Cho Oyu in Nepal, at 36 kilometres (22 mi), is the longest glacier in the Himalayas. [1] [2] Ngozumpa Glacier is a large persistent body of ice. It flows slowly due to stresses induced by its weight.
The major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a NASA study finds. The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 ...
The Khumbu Glacier (Nepali: खुम्बु हिमनदी) is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal between Mount Everest and the Lhotse-Nuptse ridge. With elevations of 4,900 m (16,100 ft) at its terminus to 7,600 m (24,900 ft) at its source, it is the world's highest glacier . [ 1 ]