Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and the lower Ghaghara in Awadh is known as the Saryu River [1], [2] is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.
Maizhokunggar County or Meldro Gungkar County is a county of Lhasa and east of the main center of Chengguan, Tibet Autonomous Region.It has an area of 5,492 square kilometres (2,120 sq mi) with an average elevation of over 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).
The largest glacier is the Marinelli, which is in a state of retreat as of 2008. [7] One of the most stunning portions of the park is the Seno Pía, an embayment of the Beagle Channel . [ 8 ] The glaciers and mountains in this area form an amazing scenery, which also comprises the majestic Mount Darwin.
Southern Patagonia Ice Field from ISS, astronaut photo.North is to the right. The Southern Patagonia Ice Field extends from parallels 48° 15′ S to 51° 30′ S for approximately 350 kilometres (220 mi), and has an approximate area of 16,480 km 2 (6,360 sq mi), of which 14,200 km 2 belong to Chile and 2,600 km 2 belong to Argentina.
The glacier covers a 31 km 2 (12 sq mi) area of Conch Gully and is characterized as a modern glacier, having formed 16 million years ago. [1] At its most extreme, the glacier reaches a low altitude of 2,850 m (9,350 ft) above sea level and reaches a high of 6,750 m (22,150 ft), and is also about 14.7 km (9.1 mi) long.
The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas at about , just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At 76 km (47 mi) long, it is the longest glacier in the Karakoram and second-longest in the world's non-polar areas . [ 5 ]
Mocho-Choshuenco (Pronounced: / ˈ m ɒ tʃ oʊ tʃ ɒ s ˈ w ɛ n k oʊ / MOTCH-oh choss-WEN-koh) is a glacier covered compound stratovolcano in the Andes of Los Ríos Region, Chile. It is made of the twin volcanoes Choshuenco in the northwest and the Mocho in the southeast.
Machapuchare, Machhapuchchhre or Machhapuchhre (from Nepali माछापुच्छ्रे 'fishtail', Tamu: कतासुँ क्लिको), is a ...