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  • Dead End Glacier (54°47′S 35°56′W / 54.783°S 35.933°W / -54.783; -35.933) is a glacier flowing east from the south end of the Salvesen Range of South...
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    46°35′42″N 9°45′36″E / 46.59500°N 9.76000°E / 46.59500; 9.76000 The Glacier Express is a direct train connecting railway stations of the two major...
    17 KB (1,869 words) - 16:52, 3 November 2024
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    Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border. The park encompasses...
    104 KB (10,073 words) - 21:36, 3 November 2024
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    The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas at about 35°25′16″N 77°06′34″E / 35.421226°N 77.109540°E /...
    44 KB (4,216 words) - 23:43, 21 October 2024
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    from "Helheim", a modern term for a world of the dead in Old Norse religion: Hel. The Helheim Glacier is located on the eastern side of the Greenland ice...
    4 KB (371 words) - 01:28, 23 October 2024
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    Okjökull (redirect from Ok (glacier))
    Ok glacier) was a glacier in western Iceland on top of the shield volcano Ok. Ok is located north-east of Reykjavík. The glacier was declared dead in...
    5 KB (473 words) - 08:39, 12 October 2024
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    Example of a mountain glacier retreat: White Chuck Glacier, Washington The retreat of glaciers since 1850 is a well-documented effect of climate change...
    140 KB (16,347 words) - 14:16, 12 October 2024
  • The glaciers and ice caps of Iceland covered 11% of the land area of the country, up to about 2008. As of 2019[update] this was down to 10%. They have...
    49 KB (1,414 words) - 22:26, 29 June 2024
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    Holgate Glacier is a glacier located in the U.S. state of Alaska, in Kenai Fjords National Park. It flows outward from the Harding Icefield toward Holgate...
    2 KB (156 words) - 03:09, 18 August 2024
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    Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is one of the oldest provincial parks in British Columbia, established in 1922. The park has an area of 320.35 km2 (123...
    4 KB (271 words) - 18:18, 17 October 2024
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    Gangotri glacier (Sanskrit and Hindi: गंगोत्री) is located in Uttarkashi District, Uttarakhand, India in a region bordering Tibet. This glacier, one of...
    11 KB (1,373 words) - 03:23, 8 November 2024
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    Dead ice is the ice in a part of a glacier or ice sheet that is no longer moving. As the ice melts, it leaves behind a hummocky terrain known as dead-ice...
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    list of glaciers in Europe. Eiskar Pasterze Glacier Schlatenkees Glacier Kitzsteinhorn Glacier Hintertux Glacier Stubai Glacier Pitztal Glacier Rettenbach...
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  • In Norse mythology, Sliðr is a river in Hel, the land of the dead. Glaciers pour into it from the freezing well of Hvergelmir, its waters are full of knives...
    745 bytes (72 words) - 19:33, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glacier morphology
    Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. The goal of glacial morphology...
    17 KB (1,811 words) - 17:11, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Athabasca Glacier
    The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier currently loses depth...
    7 KB (632 words) - 00:31, 4 November 2024
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    the way down from the summit. Three of the dead were retrieved several days later on the Matterhorn Glacier, but the remains of Lord Francis Douglas were...
    2 KB (116 words) - 16:04, 25 March 2024
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    The Siachen conflict, sometimes referred to as the Siachen Glacier conflict or the Siachen War, was a military conflict between India and Pakistan over...
    73 KB (6,952 words) - 20:17, 15 October 2024
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    missing and 14 dead as burst glacier triggers flash floods in India". CNN. Retrieved 8 February 2021. "Uttarakhand glacier disaster: Fourteen dead after India...
    23 KB (2,332 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2024
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    or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier. Commonly house-sized or larger, they are dangerous to mountaineers, since...
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