LAMBERT GLACIER

Lambert Glacier in East Antarctica holds the Guiness World Record for being the WORLD'S LARGEST GLACIER . It's about 100km wide,400km long ang 25,000m deep.




It drains 8% of the Antarctic ice sheet and south of the Prince Charles Mountains and flows northwards to the Amery Ice Shelf.
The glacier was delineated and named by American geographer John H Roscoe in 1952.

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