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glacial lake

lake formed by a melted glacier
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glacial lake

Summary

glacial lake ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (444 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • glacial lake is a type of lake[2].
  • glacial lake's Commons category is recorded as Glacial lakes[3].
  • glacial lake's said to be the same as is recorded as Q11726986[4].
  • glacial lake's has cause is recorded as glacier[5].
  • glacial lake's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Glacial lakes[6].
  • glacial lake's Commons gallery is recorded as Glacial lake[7].
  • glacial lake's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000488[8].
  • glacial lake's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000488[9].

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Definition and Type

glacial lake is a type of lake[2].

Why It Matters

glacial lake ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (444 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Glacial lakes
    Subclass of → lake
    Has cause → glacier
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 23231, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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