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All Glaciers of Africa

This group collects the Glaciers and Ice Formations subcategory's members located in Africa, a small set of equatorial mountain glaciers found at high elevation on peaks such as Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the Rwenzori Mountains on the Uganda-Democratic Republic of the Congo border. These glaciers are geologically and climatically distinct from every other continent's entries in this subcategory: they exist only because of extreme altitude rather than high latitude, and most are in active, well-documented retreat, making Africa the smallest continent-level group in this subcategory even as the underlying features remain scientifically notable.

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All Glaciers of Africa
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1. Africa (Wikipedia)
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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