Glaciers occur in all parts of the world and at almost all latitudes. In Ecuador, Kenya, Uganda, and Irian Jaya (New Guinea), glaciers even occur at or near the Equator, albeit at high altitudes. The two great ice masses, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, contain about 99 percent of the world’s glacier ice.
Where are glaciers found?
What is a glacier?
A glacier is any large mass of perennial ice that originates on land by the recrystallization of snow or other forms of solid precipitation and shows evidence of past or present flow. One international group has recommended that all persisting snow and ice masses larger than 0.1 square kilometre (about 0.04 square mile) be counted as glaciers.
