Modern glacier surface area accounts for about 10 percent of global products, including Antarctica and Greenland, the most important area of Antarctica glaciers accounted for 85%, and the total volume of global ice in Antarctica, about 91 percent; Greenland glaciers are share of the global area of 12%, glacier volume total, compared with 8 percent.
1. World Glacier District
Area (km2)
Antarctica 12,700,000
Greenland 1,800,000
Canada 153,000 Islands group
Mountains of Central Asia 125,000
Spitsbergen Islands 58,000
54,000 Russian Arctic Islands
Alaska 52,000
Andes 25,000
Western Canada 25,000
Iceland 12,000 Scandinavian 4,200
3,600 Alps
Caucasus Mountain 2,000
New Zealand 1,000
United States 530
Other 800
2. A well-known large glaciers
Name and Location Area (km2) Length (km)
Wanaka ice ridge, Iceland 8,400 ---
that glaciers, Alaska 5,000 100
Fitz into Ko glaciers, the Pamirs 1,350 77
Even about glaciers, Norway 855 70
Great Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland 115 26
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