Blue Glacier (77°50′S 164°10′E / 77.833°S 164.167°E / -77.833; 164.167 (Blue Glacier)) is a large glacier which flows into Bowers Piedmont Glacier...
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Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway (IATA: UGL, ICAO: SCGC) is the blue ice runway for Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica. It is located in the Heritage Range...
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Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. During compression, air bubbles are squeezed out, so ice...
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The Union Glacier Camp is the only private seasonally occupied camp site located in Ellsworth Land in Antarctica. The camp is located in the Heritage Range...
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Mertz Glacier. Tidewater glaciers are glaciers that terminate in the sea, including most glaciers flowing from Greenland, Antarctica, Baffin, Devon, and Ellesmere...
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Thwaites Glacier is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier located east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. It was initially...
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71°S 70°E / 71°S 70°E / -71; 70 Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica. At about 80 km (50 mi) wide, over 400 km (250 mi) long, and...
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Hobbs Ridge (redirect from Salmon Glacier (Antarctica))
Hobbs Glacier to the north and northwest and forms the divide with the lower part of Blue Glacier, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was...
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around Antarctica has caused the weakening or collapse of ice shelves, which float just offshore of glaciers and stabilize them. Many coastal glaciers have...
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A blue-ice area is an ice-covered area of Antarctica where wind-driven snow transport and sublimation result in net mass loss from the ice surface in the...
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wheels, and so runways are often several miles long. Blue ice runways in Antarctica include: Sky Blu Blue Ice Runway, Ellsworth Land, serving Sky Blu Forward...
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Andvord Bay (redirect from Arago Glacier)
(which enters Neko Harbour), Arago Glacier, Moser Glacier, Rudolph Glacier, Bagshawe Glacier and Grubb Glacier. Coastal features, clockwise from the northeast...
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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...
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(glacial), created by glaciers Blue-ice area, area in Antarctica where sublimation of ice leads to the development of blue ice Blue Ice (video game), a...
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Mount Lister (redirect from Mount Hooker (Antarctica))
system towards Koettlitz Glacier, while Salient Glacier, Hooker Glacier and Lister Glacier flow northeast into Blue Glacier. Map all coordinates using...
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U.S. Navy Task Force 43 in Antarctica, 1960. 78°22′S 163°08′E / 78.367°S 163.133°E / -78.367; 163.133. A steep glacier flowing southeast from Mount...
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McMurdo Sound from the Ross Island coastline near Cape Evans, Antarctica. The glacier tongue varies in thickness from 50 metres (160 ft) at the snout...
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Patriot Hills Base Camp (redirect from Patriot Hills Blue-Ice Runway)
interior of Antarctica. The flight time from Punta Arenas is about 4.5 hours. As of November 2010 ALE has moved operations. Union Glacier Camp is the...
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through the middle of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. The glacier drains from the plateau at Edson Hills on the west side of the...
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Land, Antarctica, rising to 4,025 metres (13,205 ft) along the west shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar Glaciers. They are...
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Bettle Peak (redirect from Amos Glacier)
bordered by Ferrar Glacier and New Harbour to the north, Overflow Glacier to the west, Blue Glacier to the south and Bowers Piedmont Glacier to the east. Map...
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Katabatic wind (category Climate of Antarctica)
lesser effect, leading to "blue ice" areas where the snow is removed and the surface ice sublimates, but is replenished by glacier flow from upstream. In...
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of glaciers of Victoria Land in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Victoria Land. Alberich Glacier Bartley Glacier Beowulf...
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Subantarctic (redirect from List of subantarctic glaciers)
Subantarctic glaciers are, by definition, located on islands within the subantarctic region. All glaciers located on the continent of Antarctica are by definition...
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Miers Valley (redirect from Adams Glacier (Victoria Land))
Valley and west of Koettlitz Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The valley is ice-free except for Miers Glacier in its upper (western) part...
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The Blue Glacier to Cape Chocolate Important Bird Area is a 1,206 ha tract of ice-free land running for 10 km south from Blue Glacier towards Cape Chocolate...
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breaks off from Antarctica ice shelf". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 14 July 2017. "Pine Island Glacier Quickly Drops...
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between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09,...
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Antarctic ice sheet (category Environment of Antarctica)
outlet glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea. Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier are the two most important outlet glaciers. Antarctica is the...
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area of Argentine Antarctica is 1,461,597 km2 (564,326 sq mi), of which 965,597 km2 (372,819 sq mi) is land. The ice of the glaciers over the territory's...
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