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Show Glaciers Worldwide A roll call of glacial giants would bring up the names of Pamir glacier, gla-cier, in the Himalayas, possibly 100 miles long; Hubbard glacier, in Alaska, 90 miles long and in places 10 miles wide; and the ice cap of Svalbard, Spitzbergen. The method of a glacier's growth is more spectacular spec-tacular than the mighty oaks from little acorns contrast. For the huge ice-rivers are merely overgrown colonies of snowflakes which have become compact granular ice. Glaciers Gla-ciers flourish virtually on the equator, equa-tor, wherever peaks are high enough. The very tip-top of Africa, Afri-ca, Mount Kilimanjaro (19,710 feet) in Tanganyika, is girdled with no less than ten glaciers, although it is volcanic. |