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World's Major Glaciers - JSON

A comprehensive list of the world's major glaciers from the perspectives of area and length. Includes large-scale glaciers distributed around the world, including Antarctica's Lambert Glacier, Alaska in North America, the Pamir Highlands, and the Himalayan mountain range. These glaciers play an important role in Earth's climate system and function as reservoirs of freshwater resources.

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[
  {
    "code": "01",
    "slug": "lambert-glacier",
    "name": "Lambert Glacier",
    "description": "The world's largest glacier located in Antarctica.",
    "location": "Antarctica",
    "lengthKm": 400,
    "widthKm": 80,
    "thicknessM": 2500,
    "type": "outlet glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "02",
    "slug": "seller-glacier",
    "name": "Seller Glacier",
    "description": "The world's largest individual glacier located in the Antarctic Peninsula.",
    "location": "Antarctic Peninsula",
    "areaSqKm": 7018,
    "type": "individual glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "03",
    "slug": "thurston-island-glacier",
    "name": "Thurston Island Glacier No. 1",
    "description": "The world's second largest individual glacier located on Thurston Island, Antarctica.",
    "location": "Thurston Island, Antarctica",
    "areaSqKm": 5261,
    "type": "individual glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "04",
    "slug": "alexander-island-glacier-1",
    "name": "Alexander Island Glacier No. 1",
    "description": "The world's third largest individual glacier located on Alexander Island, Antarctica.",
    "location": "Alexander Island, Antarctica",
    "areaSqKm": 4766,
    "type": "individual glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "05",
    "slug": "hubbard-glacier",
    "name": "Hubbard Glacier",
    "description": "North America's largest tidewater glacier located in Alaska.",
    "location": "Alaska, USA",
    "lengthKm": 122,
    "widthKm": 11,
    "type": "tidewater glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "06",
    "slug": "wykeham-glacier-south",
    "name": "Wykeham Glacier South",
    "description": "A large glacier located on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.",
    "location": "Ellesmere Island, Canada",
    "areaSqKm": 3176,
    "type": "individual glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "07",
    "slug": "bering-glacier",
    "name": "Bering Glacier",
    "description": "The longest glacier in North America.",
    "location": "Alaska, USA",
    "lengthKm": 196,
    "areaSqKm": 3025,
    "type": "surge-type glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "08",
    "slug": "fedchenko-glacier",
    "name": "Fedchenko Glacier",
    "description": "The longest glacier outside polar regions.",
    "location": "Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan",
    "lengthKm": 77,
    "thicknessM": 1000,
    "type": "valley glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "09",
    "slug": "siachen-glacier",
    "name": "Siachen Glacier",
    "description": "The world's second largest non-polar glacier in the Karakoram range.",
    "location": "Karakoram Range, India/Pakistan",
    "lengthKm": 76,
    "maxThicknessM": 896,
    "type": "valley glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "10",
    "slug": "biafo-glacier",
    "name": "Biafo Glacier",
    "description": "A large glacier in the Karakoram range of Pakistan.",
    "location": "Karakoram Range, Pakistan",
    "lengthKm": 67,
    "thicknessM": 500,
    "areaSqKm": 500,
    "type": "valley glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "11",
    "slug": "aletsch-glacier",
    "name": "Aletsch Glacier",
    "description": "The longest glacier in the Alps.",
    "location": "Alps, Switzerland",
    "lengthKm": 23,
    "areaSqKm": 120,
    "type": "valley glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "12",
    "slug": "perito-moreno-glacier",
    "name": "Perito Moreno Glacier",
    "description": "A rare advancing glacier in Patagonia, Argentina.",
    "location": "Patagonia, Argentina",
    "lengthKm": 30,
    "areaSqKm": 250,
    "type": "tidewater glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "13",
    "slug": "thwaites-glacier",
    "name": "Thwaites Glacier",
    "description": "An unstable Antarctic glacier known as the 'Doomsday Glacier.'",
    "location": "West Antarctica",
    "widthKm": 120,
    "areaSqKm": 192000,
    "type": "marine-terminating glacier"
  },
  {
    "code": "14",
    "slug": "vatnajokull",
    "name": "Vatnajökull",
    "description": "Iceland's largest glacier.",
    "location": "Iceland",
    "areaSqKm": 7900,
    "maxThicknessM": 1000,
    "type": "ice cap"
  },
  {
    "code": "15",
    "slug": "jostedalsbreen",
    "name": "Jostedalsbreen",
    "description": "Continental Europe's largest glacier.",
    "location": "Norway",
    "areaSqKm": 487,
    "type": "ice cap"
  }
]