Meanings of large glacier in English

The men had attained, after perilous work, the large glacier of Ossoue.

It then united, however, with a large glacier more to the west.

Joe hangs on a rope deep within a large glacier.

At one time in the history of the country one large glacier had completely covered that section.

Thence, after steering northeastward a few miles, we discovered still another large glacier, now named the Carroll.

This portion of the climb consisted of crossing vast snow fields and a large glacier with numerous crevasses.

Talut, with his massive axe, made short work of breaking the large glacier shards into pieces small enough to carry.

In the direction of our advance rose a large glacier, and to the east of it lay a mountain range running from southeast to northwest.

There is, indeed, a large glacier on its western side, but so inaccessible, that any examination of it would have required days rather than hours.

During the last Ice Age (some 20,000 years ago) the lake basin was filled with a large glacier, which retreated suddenly about 17,500 years ago.

Large glaciers cascade into the ocean, splitting the island's habitable areas into smaller pockets.

This is especially the case where, after the disappearance of large glaciers, rivers have occupied their beds.

Biorn said that he did not think this was Greenland, for very large glaciers were said to be there.

Large glaciers, because of the enormous pressure of their weight and because of less marginal resistance, move faster than small ones.

"No," answered Biarni; "for I am told that we may look for very large glaciers in Greenland.

But the largest sustained acceleration in ice loss from early 2003 to mid-2013 occurred in south-west Greenland, which is largely devoid of these large glaciers.