A glacier (US: GLAY-shər) or (UK: ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries. Glaciers...
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. The...
The Himalayan region of India is home to some of the most notable glaciers in the world, including the Siachen Glacier, the second-largest non-polar glacier on Earth and the largest glacier in India. The following is a list of the most important...
These are the largest glaciers on mainland Norway. However, the 18 largest glaciers in the Kingdom of Norway are on Svalbard, including the second largest glacier in Europe, Austfonna on Nordaustlandet. In total, Norway has around 1,600 glaciers -...
With more than 7,253 known glaciers, Pakistan contains more glacial ice than any other country on Earth outside the polar regions. However, a recent study by Pakistan's Ministry of Climate Change and Italian research organization EvK2CNR, indicated...
This is a non-exhaustive list of the major glaciers in Switzerland. It contains their surface area, their lengths since the start of measurement and the most current year, their height and their outflow. Most of them are retreating and many will...
Africa, specifically East Africa, has contained glacial regions, possibly as far back as the last glacial maximum 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Seasonal snow does exist on the highest peaks of East Africa as well as in the Drakensberg Range of South...
This is a list of glaciers in Europe.
A comprehensive list of glaciers in Canada began with glacial surveys by the Water Survey of Canada (WSC) from 1945 to 1980, including an inventory begun for the International Geophysical Year (1957–58) and contributions to the World Glacier...
This is a list of glaciers in the Antarctic with a name starting with the letters A–H. This list does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow,...
