glacier
large persistent body of ice
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Summary
glacier ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,520 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Made from material: ice[2]
- Subclass of: ice cover[3], perennial ice or snow‐covered land[4]
- Part of: mountain[5]
- Commons category: Glaciers[6]
- Has part(s): glacial lobe[7], glacier terminus[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Glaciers[9]
- Commons gallery: Glacier[10]
- Facet of: cryosphere[11], glaciation[12]
- OpenStreetMap tag: natural=glacier[13]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19], Antarctica: The Melting Continent[20], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[21]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox glacier[22], Template:Glaciers[23]
- Main Wikidata property: P7442[24]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Glacier[25]
- Properties for this type: P1404[26], P3707[27], P6148[28], P6799[29]
- Has list: list of glaciers[30]
- Studied by: glaciology[31], Q134623384[32]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000133[33]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[34], WikiProject Climate change[35]
- Model item: Helags glacier[36], Jostedal Glacier[37], Perito Moreno Glacier[38], ice cap[39]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Glaciers[40], WikiProject Environment[41]
Body
Influence
Things named for glacier include Under the Glacier[42], a literary work[43], written by Halldór Laxness[44].
Why It Matters
glacier has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] glacier is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]
Entities named for glacier include Under the Glacier[42], a literary work[43], written by Halldór Laxness[44].