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Subglacial drainage emerging from a conduit in the snout of Aktineq Glacier

Location: Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
Subglacial drainage emerging from a conduit in the snout of Aktineq Glacier

Highly sediment-charged water emerging from the base of Aktineq Glacier during summer 1990. Ice in the foreground is aufeis (icing ice) attached to the front of the glacier.













Date taken: July 1990
Photo ID: 0025
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