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Lilliput Glacier is the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of California. The glacier has an area of .05 km 2 (0.019 sq mi), which is approximately 12.2 acres. In terms of area this is about the size of 48 typical suburb (1/4 acre or approx. 100' × 100') lots that single family homes are built on.
Glaciers are located in ten states, with the vast majority in Alaska. [1] The southernmost named glacier is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, east of the Central Valley of California. Apart from Alaska, around 1330 glaciers, 1175 perennial snow fields, and 35 buried-ice features have been identified. [2] [3
Lilliput is said to extend 5,000 blustrugs, or 12 miles in circumference. [8] Blefuscu is located northeast of Lilliput, across an 800-yard (730 m) channel. [9] The only cities mentioned by Swift are Mildendo, [10] the capital of Lilliput, and Blefuscu, capital of Blefuscu. [11]
There are a number of glaciers existing in North America, currently or in recent centuries. In the United States, these glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or further west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, east of the Central Valley of California.
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The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Many sequels followed the initial publishing of the Travels.The earliest of these was the anonymously authored Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, [6] published 1727, which expands the account of Gulliver's stays in Lilliput and Blefuscu by adding several gossipy anecdotes about scandalous episodes at the Lilliputian court.