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A fact from Compton Glacier appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat?

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The greater bulk of the article is general to Heard Island, not specific to Compton Glacier. It needs to be severely pruned, but I have neither the time not the energy to to do this now. Any takers? Jan1naD ^{(talk • contrib)} 20:28, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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