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Aletsch

Most extensive glacier in Europe, 23.6 km/14.7 mi long, beginning on the southern slopes of the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland.



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The now 23-kilometre (14-mile) Aletsch glacier has shrunk by several kilometres over the decades and is regarded by scientists as one of the most visible examples of the impact of
who collaborated with Greenpeace to gather hundreds of naked volunteers to pose at the edge the rapidly receding Aletsch glacier, which has retreated 100 metres in just one year.
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Iodine; 2 Swansea; 3 The buttercup; 4 Near Prague in Bohemia; 5 The Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland.
 
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