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Pine Island Glacier
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Pine Island Glacier
Pine Island Glacier
(PIG) is a large
ice stream
glacier, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica's ice loss. The glacier ice streams flow west-northwest along the south side of the
Hudson Mountains
into
Pine Island Bay
,
Amundsen Sea
,
Antarctica
. It was mapped by the
United States Geological Survey
(USGS) from surveys and
United States Navy
(USN) air photos, 1960–66, and named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) in association with Pine Island Bay.
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