glacier

large persistent body of ice
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glacier

Summary

glacier ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (513 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • glacier's image is recorded as Ледник на западном побережье Земли Грейама.jpg[2].
  • glacier's image is recorded as Perito Moreno Glacier Patagonia Argentina Luca Galuzzi 2005.JPG[3].
  • glacier's made from material is recorded as ice[4].
  • glacier's GND ID is recorded as 4137668-7[5].
  • glacier's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85055066[6].
  • glacier's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11935616q[7].
  • glacier's subclass of is recorded as ice cover[8].
  • glacier's subclass of is recorded as perennial ice or snow‐covered land[9].
  • glacier's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00563845[10].
  • glacier's part of is recorded as mountain[11].
  • glacier's Commons category is recorded as Glaciers[12].
  • glacier's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 26228[13].
  • glacier's has part is recorded as glacial lobe[14].
  • glacier's has part is recorded as glacier terminus[15].
  • glacier's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/038jz[16].
  • glacier's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph166364[17].
  • glacier's HDS ID is recorded as 007772[18].
  • glacier's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Glaciers[19].
  • glacier's Commons gallery is recorded as Glacier[20].
  • glacier's page banner is recorded as 7-to-1-ratio Glaciar Lamplugh, Parque Nacional Bahía del Glaciar, Alaska, Estados Unidos, 2017-08-19, DD 147-153 PAN.jpg[21].
  • glacier's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300008835[22].
  • glacier's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 551.312[23].
  • glacier's PSH ID is recorded as 4308[24].
  • glacier's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1654[25].
  • glacier's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25H1111[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for glacier include Under the Glacier[27], a literary work[28], written by Halldór Laxness[29].

Why It Matters

glacier ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (513 views/month).[1] glacier has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] glacier is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for glacier include Under the Glacier[27], a literary work[28], written by Halldór Laxness[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . doi.org. doi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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