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List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many
glaciers in the Antarctic
. This set of lists does not include
ice sheets
,
ice caps
or
ice fields
, such as the
Antarctic ice sheet
, but includes
glacial
features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. The lists include
outlet glaciers
,
valley glaciers
, cirque glaciers,
tidewater glaciers
and
ice streams
. Ice streams are a type of glacier and many of them have "glacier" in their name, e.g.
Pine Island Glacier
.
Ice shelves
are listed separately in the
List of Antarctic ice shelves
. For the purposes of these lists, the
Antarctic
is defined as any
latitude
further south than 60° (the continental limit according to the
Antarctic Treaty System
).
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