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Glacier Bay, Alaska

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. The Park is named for its abundant tidewater and terrestrial glaciers, numbering 1,045 in total. At the center of the picture you can see a long glacier decending from the mountain. Like a river of ice, a glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Uploaded on August 31, 2018
Taken on July 5, 2018