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Glaciers of Tibet (5 P) Glaciers of Turkey (2 P) U. Glaciers of the United States (3 C, 1 P) V. Glaciers of Venezuela (6 P) This page was last edited on 28 June 2023 ...
Ice streams are a type of glacier [5] and many of them have "glacier" in their name, e.g. Pine Island Glacier. Ice shelves are listed separately in the List of Antarctic ice shelves. For the purposes of these lists, the Antarctic is defined as any latitude further south than 60° (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty System). [6]
Glacial lakes of the United States (3 C, 96 P) This page was last edited on 28 June 2023, at 12:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Great Lakes are the largest glacial lakes in the world. The prehistoric glacial Lake Agassiz once held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today. A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier. [1]
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Very few large lakes are found within the body of the Alps, but a number are situated around the edge, particularly in areas formerly covered by glacier tongues. These include Lake Geneva on the northern side of the alps, on the French/Swiss border, Lago Maggiore, Lake Como and Lake Garda on the southern side of the Alps in Italy/Switzerland ...
Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique) Malawi/ Mozambique/ Tanzania: Lake Mweru Democratic Republic of the Congo/ Zambia: Lake Nasser (Arabic: بحيرة ناصر Boħēret Nāṣer; Sudanese: Lake Nubia) Egypt/ Sudan: Lake Rweru Burundi/ Rwanda: Lake Sélingué (artificial lake) Mali/ Guinea: Lake Tanganyika
Glacial lakes by country (16 C) Glaciers by country (47 C) C. Glaciology of Canada (4 C, 6 P) N. Glaciology of New Zealand (2 C, 1 P) U. Glaciology of the United ...