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Glacier Retreat at Cook Ice Cap

The glaciers in the Kerguelen Islands are shrinking as snowfall declines.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 27, 2018
Data acquired November 27, 2001 - January 25, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI