• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    some faulting has occurred. Coal was first recorded in Antarctica near the Beardmore Glacier by Frank Wild on the Nimrod Expedition in 1907, and low-grade...
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    Andvord Bay (redirect from Grubb_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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    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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    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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    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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    Example of a mountain glacier retreat: White Chuck Glacier, Washington The retreat of glaciers since 1850 is well documented and is one of the effects...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Foreign Affairs: The Chilean Antarctica or Chilean Antarctic Territory is: all lands, islands, islets, reefs, glaciers (pack-ice), and others, known...
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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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    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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    stabilize them. Many coastal glaciers have been losing mass and retreating, which causes net annual ice loss across Antarctica,: 1264  even as the East Antarctic...
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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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    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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