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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 09/07/2009 : 02:06:55
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What on Earth? #43: Glacier
This is obviously a glacier.
1. What's its name and location?
2. What's special about it?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 13:06:44 [Permalink]
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Hint # 1: It's very big.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 13:31:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint # 1: It's very big. |
And yet, the "special" glaciers I've been able to find are either much larger than that, or much smaller. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 13:44:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint # 1: It's very big. |
And yet, the "special" glaciers I've been able to find are either much larger than that, or much smaller.
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Odd. Hint # 2: Wiki thinks this one's the biggest of all.
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Dave W.
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USA
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 14:25:47 [Permalink]
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Well, Lambert Glacier (according to Wikipedia) is the Guinness World-Record holder for largest, and at 60 miles wide and 250 miles long, is very, very much bigger than the 60-something-mile-long, perhaps 8-mile-wide flow you've got pictured in the OP.
Plus, in Google Maps, every glacier location I checked in Antarctica is pretty much shown as an undifferentiated field of white, and I didn't think that the Maps imagery was much different than that of Google Earth.
Edited to add that with this kind of flow geometry, Lambert looks nothing like the image in the OP, anyway. |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 14:34:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Well, Lambert Glacier (according to Wikipedia) is the Guinness World-Record holder for largest, and at 60 miles wide and 250 miles long, is very, very much bigger than the 60-something-mile-long, perhaps 8-mile-wide flow you've got pictured in the OP.
Plus, in Google Maps, every glacier location I checked in Antarctica is pretty much shown as an undifferentiated field of white, and I didn't think that the Maps imagery was much different than that of Google Earth.
Edited to add that with this kind of flow geometry, Lambert looks nothing like the image in the OP, anyway.
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What I've shown above is not Lambert Glacier.
Hmmm... Wikipedia contradicts both the Guinness Book of World Records and its own Glacier article. You'd almost think thousands of people are writing this stuff.
I reward one point to Dave W. for debunking my "special about it" question.
Still, for that last point, what's the name and location of the one I've shown?
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 14:53:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
It took scanning the Wikipedia Glacier page for the word "largest" to find that it's Byrd Glacier, and it's definitely wrong about it being largest.
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Thank you for pointing that out.
You now also get another point, for identifying my image as being Byrd Glacier.
The standings:
- bngbuck, 22 points
- tw101356, 22 points
- Dave W., 20 points
- lorddix, 9 points
- Hal, 7 points
- Moakley, 4 points
- Steinhenge, 4 points
- Hawks, 3 points
- Simon, 3 points
- astropin, 1 point
- Dude, 1 point
- Filthy, 1 point
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/07/2009 16:24:48 |
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WoE: Glacier
