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The lists include outlet glaciers, valley glaciers, cirque glaciers, tidewater glaciers and ice streams. Ice streams are a type of glacier [5] and many of them have "glacier" in their name, e.g. Pine Island Glacier. Ice shelves are listed separately in the List of Antarctic ice shelves. For the purposes of these lists, the Antarctic is defined ...
Glaciers are present on every continent and in approximately fifty countries, excluding those (Australia, South Africa) that have glaciers only on distant subantarctic island territories. Extensive glaciers are found in Antarctica, Argentina, Chile, Canada, Pakistan, [ 47 ] Alaska, Greenland and Iceland.
This category has the following 46 subcategories, out of 46 total. Glaciers of Asia by country (16 C) Glaciers of Europe by country (15 C) Glaciers of South America by country (8 C) Glaciers of Argentina (14 P) Glaciers of Australia (1 C) Glaciers of Austria (11 P) Glaciers of Bhutan (1 P) Glaciers of Bolivia (15 P)
Aneto: the Maladeta and Aneto glaciers. Monte Perdido: Gabietous, Taillon and Monte Perdido glaciers. Picos del Infierno: Infierno glacier. Posets: Llardana glacier. Vignemale: Oulettes and Ossue glaciers. Mont Valier: Arcouzan. The pyrenees have a lot of small glaciers that have stopped moving or haven't been studied since becoming very small.
Glaciers in South America develop exclusively on the Andes and are subject to the Andes various climatic regimes namely the Tropical Andes, Dry Andes and the Wet Andes. Apart from this there is a wide range of altitudes on which glaciers develop from 5000 m in the Altiplano mountains and volcanoes to reaching sealevel as tidewater glaciers from ...
Gold Glacier. Drygalski Glacier (vanished) Eastern Ice Field (Mount Kilimanjaro) Furtwängler Glacier. Great Barranco Glacier (now known as Barranco Glacier) Great Penck Glacier (vanished) Heim Glacier. Kersten Glacier. Little Barranco Glacier (vanished, small remnant later named Arrow Glacier) [5]
The ice mass feeds dozens of glaciers in the area, among which are the Upsala (765 km 2), Viedma (978 km 2) and Perito Moreno (258 km 2) in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, and the Pío XI Glacier or Bruggen Glacier (1,265 km 2, the largest in area and longest in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica), O'Higgins (820 km 2 ...
Rink Glacier, west Greenland NASA picture of the southern part of Romer Lake with the Elephant Foot Glacier.. This is a list of glaciers in Greenland.Details on the size and flow of some of the major Greenlandic glaciers are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006) [1]