As we rolled along the tracks, the outside world melted away. We were engulfed in a life that only existed inside the last two cars of our train. The three-day, two-night VIA Rail train journey from Winnipeg to Churchill, Canada, was both a time warp and a luxury of stillness al...
Greenland’s major physical feature is its massiveice sheet, which is second only toAntarctica’s in size. TheGreenland Ice Sheethas an average thickness of 5,000 feet (1,500 metres), reaches a maximum thickness of about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres), and covers more than 700,000 square...
Greenland Ice Sheet, the single ice sheet or glacier covering about 80 percent of the island of Greenland and the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, globally second in size to only the ice mass that covers Antarctica. It extends 1,380 miles (2,220 km) north-south, has a maxi...
Glaciers are classifiable in three main groups: (1) glaciers that extend in continuous sheets, moving outward in all directions, are calledice sheetsif they are the size ofAntarcticaorGreenlandand ice caps if they are smaller; (2) glaciersconfinedwithin a path that directs the ice movement ...