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Grand Désert

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Grand Désert is a glacier in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, on the slopes of the Rosablanche mountain. As of 2005 it was about 2 kilometers long, down from an area of 1.89 square kilometers recorded in 1973, and it feeds the glacial lake Lac du Grand Désert.

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