Pine Island Glacier
Pine Island Glacier is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. responsible for about 13% of Antarctica's ice loss. The glacier flows west-northwest along the south side of the Hudson Mountains into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Polargeo, Public domain.
- Type: Glacier
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Pine Island Ice Shelf”
Pine Island Glacier
- Categories: ice stream and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Pine Island Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Pine Island Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pine Island Glacier”
- Chinese: “松岛冰架”
- Chinese: “派恩島冰川”
- French: “Glacier de l’Île-des-Pins”
- French: “Glacier de l’Île-du-Pin”
- French: “Glacier de Pine Island”
- German: “Pine-Island-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Pine Island”
- Japanese: “パインアイランド氷河”
- Japanese: “パイン島氷河”
- Latvian: “Painailendas glečers”
- Latvian: “Painailendas ledājs”
- Latvian: “Pine Island Glacier”
- Macedonian: “Пајнајлендов Ледник”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pine Island-breen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pine Island-breen”
- Norwegian: “Pine Island-breen”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar de Pine Island”
- Romanian: “Ghețarul Pine Island”
- Russian: “Ледник Пайн-Айленд”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Isla Pine”
- Swedish: “Pine Island Glacier”
- Ukrainian: “Пайн-Айленд (льодовик)”
- Ukrainian: “Пайн-Айленд”
- Vietnamese: “Sông băng Đảo Pine”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pine Island Glacier”. Photo: Polargeo, Public domain.