{"id":14097,"date":"2016-03-27T02:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T08:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wrdprs\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2016-01-28T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:30:13","slug":"nowhere-is-a-place-visiting-patgonia-5-viedma-glacier-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/nowhere-is-a-place-visiting-patgonia-5-viedma-glacier-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere is a Place. Visiting Patgonia, 5) Viedma Glacier, Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Situated close to the small Argentinean town of El Chalten<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is Lake Viedma, a large glacial lake.\u00a0 You can take a boat tour to visit the largest glacier in the Southern Patagonia Ice Field, the Viedma Glacier, from a dock on the northwestern shore of the lake,\u00a0near El Chalten (which you can reach by bus from town).<\/p>\n

The following overview photo, courtesy of NASA, will help orient you a little better.\u00a0 Viedma Lake is obvious, as is the Patagonian Icefield.\u00a0 The Viedma Glacier is at 12 o’clock in this photo (actually direction is west).\u00a0 The boat launch is in the little thumb at the top right of the lake at about one o’clock.\u00a0 El Chalten is in a non-snow covered valley near the top right corner:<\/p>\n

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Lake Viedma, with surrounding Patagonian Icefield. Viedma Glacier is at 12 o’clock<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Viedma Glacier\u00a0is part of Los Glaciares National Park<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is the source of most of the water in Lake Viedma. \u00a0The Southern Patagonian Ice Field is the southern hemisphere’s second largest,\u00a0 covering 13,000 square kilometres (5,000\u00a0sq\u00a0mi); Viedma Glacier is one of its 48 larger outlet glaciers (there are also more than 200 smaller glaciers in the Ice Field).<\/p>\n

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