Ice calving off the glacier

¨Iceberg dead ahead¨...

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December 16th 2007
We arrived in El Calafate on a mission to see some ice, the bigger: the better! After traipsing around town and coming to a realisation that this is truly an expensive place, we settled on a one day tour to the main attraction in town: the Perito Moreno Glacier. The Perito Moreno Glacier is located in the Los Glaciares National Park and is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ic ... read more

South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » Perito Moreno Glacier

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more