Lambert Glacier

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The Lambert Glacier ( originally Baker -3 Glacier ) is a glacier situated in Antarctica. With 420 km long and 90 km to 130 km wide ( at home ), he is the longest and largest glaciers in the world.

The ice stream discovered in 1956 is located in Ostantarktika. From the central dome-like plateau of Antarctica, Polar plateau called, or by the local American highland the ice flows past the Prince Charles Mountains in the west and the Princess Elizabeth in the east, toward the coast of the continent, where it is in the Amery Ice Shelf pours or calves.

The catchment area of ​​the Lambert Glacier comprises about 10 percent of the ice sheet of Antarctica. At its mouth into the icy Antarctic Ocean where the ice up to 1000 m per year moves about 750 m towards the sea, the glacier is about 210 km wide.