• Question: what is a glacier?

    Asked by anon-190691 to Liam on 16 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Liam Taylor

      Liam Taylor answered on 16 Nov 2018:


      Good question! A glacier is a big river of ice. They even flow at a whopping rate of about 1 metre per day! Here is what they look like from above:

      And here is one that I visited! They’re enormous – there’s a seal in this picture for scale!

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