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World's Major Glaciers - YAML

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"