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July 9, 2021

Porcupine Glacier, British Columbia Southern Terminus Breakup

Porcupine Glacier, British Columbia in a July 4, 2021 Sentinel image illustrating the retreat from 2015-2021 and new iceberg breakup (B). Red arrow is 2015 terminus location and yellow arrows 2021 terminus locations of both branches. Porcupine Glacier is a 20 km long outlet glacier of an icefield in the Hoodoo Mountains of Northern British Columbia that terminates in an expanding proglacial lake. During 2016 the glacier had an unusually …

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