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  2. Category:Glaciers by country - Wikipedia

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    Category: Glaciers by country. 47 languages. ... Glaciers of Tibet (5 P) Glaciers of Turkey (2 P) U. Glaciers of the United States (3 C, 1 P) V. Glaciers of Venezuela ...

  3. Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. List of glaciers - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Geography of the Alps - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Patagonia - Wikipedia

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    Patagonia (Spanish pronunciation: [pataˈɣonja]) is a geographical region that includes parts of Argentina and Chile at the southern end of South America. The region includes the southern section of the Andes mountain chain with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west and deserts, tablelands, and steppes to the east.

  7. List of glaciers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Glacial lake - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Category:Glacial lakes by country - Wikipedia

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    Category: Glacial lakes by country. 11 languages. Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Čeština; Esperanto; ... Glacial lakes of the United States (3 C, 96 P)