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Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta.. A comprehensive list of glaciers in Canada began with glacial surveys by the Water Survey of Canada (WSC) from 1945 to 1980, [1] including an inventory begun for the International Geophysical Year (1957–58) and contributions to the World Glacier Inventory (WGI, now part of the World Glacier Monitoring Service) for the International ...
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 ).
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The glaciers popular with climbers [3] accessible in both summer and winter. Both ski trips in the winter and glacier hiking trips in the summer often combine a traverse of this icefield with a trip across the Waputik Icefield directly to the south. The Burgess shale animal Waptia takes its name from these features. [4]
The Penny Ice Cap, formerly Penny Icecap, [1] is a 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m (6,562 ft) high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fjords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the Laurentide ice sheet.
The glacier is a primary water source for the North Saskatchewan River. The glacier is approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) long and covers an area of 30 km 2 (11.5 mi 2) and was measured in 1960 to be over 400 metres (1,310 ft) thick at a distance of 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the terminal snout. [1]
Idiji Glacier is the namesake of Idiji Ridge which is just to the southeast. [2] The name of the glacier was suggested by the Geological Survey of Canada on November 15, 1979, and eventually became official on November 24, 1980. Idiji means "it thunders" in the Tahltan language, which refers to the loud noises stemming from this very active ...
The name of the glacier was suggested by the Geological Survey of Canada on November 15, 1979, and eventually became official on November 24, 1980. Tennaya is derived from the Tahltan words ten and naya, which mean ice and be come down respectively. The name of this glacier is a reference to a spectacular icefall at the head of Tennaya valley. [1]