Deepest Ice
Ice sheets on land, but having the base below sea level. Places under ice are not considered to be on land.
| Bentley Subglacial Trench | −2,555 m (−8,383 ft) | Antarctica |
| Trough beneath Jakobshavn Isbræ | −1,512 m (−4,961 ft) | Greenland |
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“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
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