Glaciers seem to have a life of their own. They grow in the winter and shrink in the summer and they actual move. The first glacier that I ever saw was in New Zealand and I was surprised to see the white colored river flowing from it. The white color was cause by the powered rock that was mixed in the water which was created by the moving glacier crushing the rocks beneath it.
Glaciers that are formed at the ocean melt in the summer and release large chunks of ice into the water which are pretty to see but there can be so much ice in the water that the area near the glacier is impassable for boats.
The posts that will be shown under this category are the glaciers that I have seen in my travels. I hope that you will enjoy my posts on these glaciers and that I will be able to show them in a way that will illustrate what makes them so interesting to me.
Many of the Glaciers of the Southern Alps can be easily seen. There are about 3,144 glaciers in New Zealand and all but 20 of these are in the Southern Alps. Glacier Country is located amongst the untamed natural wilderness of the West Coast of the South Island. There are many stunning glaciers of the…
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Mendenhall Glacier is located near Juneau, Alaska. It is a 13 mile ribbon of ice that flows from the Juneau Ice Field which is a 1,500 square-mile frozen plateau. Seeing a glacier is a special experience. While glaciers are not really rare, they are only found in a relatively few locations around the world so…
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