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title: "Some Interesting facts about glaciers"  
description: "glaciers are the main component which holds our water system in balance and as per the scientific facts it cover about 68.7% of fresh water."  
author: "Steilla Mitchel"  
published: 2022-06-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1019/some-interesting-facts-about-glaciers  
category: "nature"  
tags: ["nature", "ice", "freshwater", "glaciers."]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Some Interesting facts about glaciers

![Some Interesting facts about glaciers](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/442984d3-ee30-44a6-8ed6-b6bb6d89881d/images/0896d1a1-1f2e-4cce-ad71-0327726caf14.jpeg) Some Interesting facts about glaciers ![Some Interesting facts about glaciers](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/442984d3-ee30-44a6-8ed6-b6bb6d89881d/images/f03d2cfa-a7d4-4d4a-ab57-9f1b3c2412e3.jpeg) Though it sits on the equator, Mount Kilimanjaro is glaciated. ![Some Interesting facts about glaciers](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/442984d3-ee30-44a6-8ed6-b6bb6d89881d/images/abb032f1-eb3b-47e0-91d3-8b52bede8181.jpeg) Alaska is estimated to have more than 100,000 glaciers. Most remain unnamed ![Some Interesting facts about glaciers](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/442984d3-ee30-44a6-8ed6-b6bb6d89881d/images/6aed0370-c865-4bf6-a8a1-2085c23b56c3.jpeg) Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater. ![Some Interesting facts about glaciers](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/442984d3-ee30-44a6-8ed6-b6bb6d89881d/images/e95d0b72-3e59-48a5-b081-4cc0bc8092a6.jpeg) A single glacier ice crystal can grow to be as large as a baseball ![Some Interesting facts about glaciers](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/442984d3-ee30-44a6-8ed6-b6bb6d89881d/images/06dc2373-10cd-4034-990b-46159cf1f54a.jpeg) Glaciers are found in 47 countries.

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