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Glaciers of North America

This group collects the Glaciers and Ice Formations subcategory's members located in North America, spanning the glaciers and icefields of Alaska and western Canada, the Rocky Mountains and Cascade Range of the contiguous United States, and Greenland. It includes major icefields feeding outlet glaciers on the Alberta-British Columbia border, tidewater glaciers reaching the Alaskan and Canadian coast, and smaller alpine glaciers on volcanic peaks such as Mount Hood in Oregon. North America is the second-largest source of named entries in the parent subcategory after Antarctica, which is why it forms its own continent-level group here.

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1. North America (Wikipedia)
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North America is a continent in the Northern and Western hemispheres.
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