Glacier Information North America
The Greenland ice sheet is the world’s second largest ice sheet (and second largest glacier) after the Antarctic Ice sheet (see pp. 306–307), covering 660,000 square miles (1.71 million square km) of Greenland. It has an estimated volume of 680,000 cubic miles (2.85 million cubic km), with an average thickness of about 5,480 ft (1,670m) … Read more
