Canyon Glacier
Canyon Glacier is a narrow glacier, 35 nautical miles long, flowing to the Ross Ice Shelf. It drains the northwest slopes of Mount Wexler and moves northward between steep canyon walls of the Separation Range and Hughes Range to join the ice shelf immediately west of Giovinco Ice Piedmont.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Canyon Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 18 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Canyon Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Canyon Glacier”
- Chinese: “峽谷冰川”
- German: “Canyon-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון קניון”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Canyon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canyonbreen”
- Swedish: “Canyon Glacier (glaciär i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Canyon Glacier”
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