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A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity and undergoes internal deformation. more

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Schoolroom Glacier Schoolroom Glacier Location    
Schoolroom Glacier is the small glacier located in Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. This Teton Range glacier lies adjacent to the south Cascade Canyon trail at an altitude of 10,400 feet (3,170 m), approximately 12 miles (19...
Chenega Glacier   Location   19.5km
Chenega Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in Prince William Sound and on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Chenega Glacier was named in 1905 for Chenega Island and the nearby community of Chenega Bay. The glacier is a tourist...
Furtwängler Glacier Furtwängler Glacier (foreground) as it appeared in August 2003. Behind the glacier are snowfields and the Northern Icefield Location    
The Furtwängler Glacier is located near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Furtwängler Glacier is a small remnant of an enormous icecap which once crowned the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. This icecap has retreated significantly over the...
Rebmann Glacier Rebmann Glacier on the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro Location    
The Rebmann Glacier is located near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and is a small remnant of an enormous icecap which once crowned the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. This icecap has retreated significantly over the past century and...
Exit Glacier Exit Glacier Location    
Exit Glacier is a glacier derived from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska. It received its name because it served as the "exit" for the first recorded crossing of the Harding Icefield. The Exit Glacier is especially notable for...
Blackfoot Glacier Jackson Glacier at right was once joined to Blackfoot Glacier on the left Location   1.6km
Blackfoot Glacier is the largest of the remaining 27 glaciers in Glacier National Park and is located to the north of Blackfoot Mountain. The glacier was most recently measured in 1993 at 430 acres (1.74 km²), yet when first documented in 1850, the...
Cloud Peak Glacier   Location    
Cloud Peak Glacier is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the northcentral section of the U.S. state of Wyoming. Centered within the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest, Cloud Peak Glacier is the only active glacier in the Bighorn...
Upper Fremont Glacier Upper Fremont Glacier on the north ridge of Fremont Peak Location   2.2km
Upper Fremont Glacier is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. This Wind River Range glacier is associated with the largest grouping of glaciers in the U.S. Rocky Mountain and lies on the...
Jackson Glacier Jackson Glacier at right was once joined to Blackfoot Glacier on the left Location   1.13km
Jackson Glacier is approximately the fifth largest of the remaining 27 glaciers in Glacier National Park located in the U.S. state of Montana. A part of the largest grouping of glaciers in the park, Jackson Glacier rests on the north side of Mount...
Boulder Glacier Boulder Glacier on the southeast slope of Mount Baker Location   2.4km
Boulder Glacier is located on the southeast slope of Mount Baker, a stratovolcano near the Pacific coast of North America in the Cascade Range of Washington. Boulder Glacier is the sixth largest on Mount Baker with an area of 1.3 mi² (3.4 km²) (Post...
Grasshopper Glacier   Location   1.6km
Grasshopper Glacier (Montana) is a glacier located in the Beartooth Mountains, Custer National Forest, Montana, U.S.. The glacier is within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, a part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The glacier is approximately ...
Siachen Glacier Satellite imagery of the Siachen Glacier Location    
The Siachen Glacier is located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains along the disputed India-Pakistan border at approximately . It is the longest glacier in the Karakoram and second longest in the world's non-polar areas. It...
Carbon Glacier The terminal of the Carbon Glacier Location   9.17km
The Carbon Glacier is the source of the Carbon River. It is accessible from the northwest Carbon River entrance of Mount Rainier National Park just outside the town of Carbonado Washington. The Carbon Glacier is the lowest-elevation glacier in the...
Rupal Glacier   Mountain range    
Rupal Glacier or Tashain Glacier is a glacier in the Great Himalaya subrange of Himalaya. It starts in the north of an unnamed 6,326 m high peak (35° 8'35.93"N 74°24'52.46"E) and flows northeast in the north of Laila Peak (Rupal Valley) and in the...
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Gannett Glacier Gannett Glacier on the north slope of Gannett Peak Location    
Gannett Glacier is the largest glacier in the Rocky Mountains within the United States. The glacier is located on the east and north slopes of Gannett Peak, the highest mountain in Wyoming on the east side of the Continental Divide in the Wind River...
Grinnell Glacier Grinnell Glacier in background (2005) Location    
Grinnell Glacier is located in the heart of Glacier National Park (U.S.) in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the...
Quelccaya Ice Cap 1975-2000 Landsat false-colour animation, Qori Kalis outflow glacier at left centre Location    
The Quelccaya Ice Cap is the largest glaciated area in the tropics. Located in the Cordillera Oriental section of the Andes mountains of Peru, the ice cap is at an average altitude of 5,470 meters (18,600 ft) and spans an area of 44 square...
Lituya Glacier   Location   18.0km
Lituya Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at inside Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, its source is in the Fairweather Range and it feeds into Lituya Bay on the gulf coast of Southeast Alaska. It is partially...
Davidson Glacier   Location    
The Davidson Glacier is a large valley glacier near Haines, Alaska that finds its source in the Chilkat Range. The Davidson Glacier was originally discovered by 1867 and was recounted by John Muir in his famous travels in and around Glacier Bay in...
Malaspina Glacier Location   45.0km
The Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is the largest piedmont glacier this far south in North America. It is about 65 km (40 mi) wide and 45 km (28 mi) long, with an area of some 3,900 km² (1,500 sq mi). It is named after the Italian explorer...
Mýrdalsjökull Mýrdalsjökull Location    
Mýrdalsjökull, , literally the ice cap in the marsh valley, is a glacier in the south of Iceland. It is situated to the north of Vík í Mýrdal and to the east of the smaller glacier Eyjafjallajökull. Its peak reaches 1,493 m in height and in 1980 it...
Pindari Glacier   Location    
The Pindari Glacier is a glacier found in the upper reaches of the Kumaon Himalayas, to the southeast of Nanda Devi. The trail to reach the glacier crosses the villages of Saung, Loharkhet, over the Dhakuri pass, onto Khati village (the last...
Whitney Glacier   Location    
The Whitney Glacier is a glacier situated on Mount Shasta, in the U.S. state of California. The Whitney Glacier is the longest glacier and also the only valley glacier in California. In area and volume, it ranks second in the state behind the nearby...
Ketchum Glacier   Location    
Ketchum Glacier is an eastward flowing glacier at the base of Palmer Land, about 50 miles (80 km) long, descending between the Latady Mountains and the Scaife Mountains into Gardner Inlet. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research...
Gornergletscher Gornergletscher Location    
The Gorner Glacier is a valley glacier found on the Monte Rosa massif close to Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is about 14 km long and 1 to 1.5 km wide. The entire glacial area of the glacier related to Gorner Glacier is 68 km²,...
Kaliakra Glacier   Location    
Kaliakra Glacier (Lednik Kaliakra 'led-nik ka-li-'a-kra) is a glacier in northeastern Livingston Island, Antarctica extending 7 km in E-W direction and 8 km in N-S direction. It is bounded by Melnik Ridge and Bowles Ridge to the S, by Hemus Peak,...
Quensel Glacier   Location    
Quensel Glacier is a small glacier flowing southeast into Cooper Bay at the east tip of South Georgia. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Percy D. Quensel, Swedish geologist of Uppsala University, who...
Batura Glacier   Location    
Batura Glacier (57km long) is one of the largest and longest glaciers outside the polar regions. It lies in the Gojal region of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, just north of Batura (7,795 m) and Passu (7,500 m) massifs. It flows west to east. The...
Hainablak Glacier   Location    
Hainablak Glacier is a glacier near Trango Tower mountain in Baltistan, Northern Areas of Pakistan.
Lambert Glacier An icefall feeding into the Lambert Glacier, Antarctica Location    
Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica. At about 60 miles (96km) wide, over 250 miles (400 km) long, and about 2,500 meters deep, it holds the Guinness world record for the world's biggest glacier. It drains a large area to the east and...