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It's possibly even more dramatic than this in New Zealand. As a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember being pretty awestruck by the Franz Joseph glacier. You could park your car, walk up from the road and in a few minutes be standing on a vast field of ice. Now days you can't even see it from the road. You can't walk up either because the track has been closed due to erosion. The only way to get on the ice is with a helicopter. It's retreated by many kilometres in just those ~30 years.

Same story on the Tasman glacier, which is now mostly a lake which sometimes has a few icebergs floating in it.

parent Reason077 3 years ago

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