File:Byrd glacier landsat.jpg

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English: Byrd Glacier, Antarctica from Landsat Byrd Glacier is a fifteen mile wide, one hundred mile long rock-floored ice stream located in southern Antarctica. This long, unique ice feature plunges through a deep valley in the Transatlantic Mountains and into the Ross Ice Shelf. This ice stream speeds as a river of ice at a rate of one half mile per year.

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http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery/detail/402/

http://landsat.usgs.gov/images/gallery/53_L.jpg
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