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Cirque and valley glaciers on Northern Baffin Island
Location: Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
Cirque and valley glaciers on Northern Baffin Island

Date taken: July 1993
Photo ID: 0087
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Cirque and valley glaciers, Northern Baffin Island, from the window of a commercial airliner flying south from Pond Inlet at an altitude of about 3,000 m. Note the equilibrium line dividing the gray ablation zone and the blue-white accumulation zone. The white color at the top of the peak is from a recent snowfall. See image 0007.

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