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Humboldt Glacier

Humboldt Glacier, NW Greenland. The largest known glacier of the Northern Hemisphere, it debouches into Kane Basin along a front c.60 mi (100 km) wide and 300 ft (91 m) high. U.S. explorer E. K. Kane discovered it on his expedition of 1853–55.

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