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Penitentes

Field of regularly spaced ice formations formed by sublimation at high altitudes
Landform glacier Q247574

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3 properties

Identity

Instance of
glacier
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Facet of
snow[2]
Different from
penance[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en Penitentes de Büßerschnee de Zackenfirn de Büßereis fr Pénitents de neige he נציבי קרח it Neve penitente ja ペニテンテ ja ペニテント pl Penitent pt Penitente ru Кальгаспор sv Nieve penitente uk Кальгаспори vi Penitente (hình thái của tuyết)
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Penitentes Upper Rio Blanco Argentine.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/nieve-penitente
Freebase ID
/m/0ctjyf
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
kaiushchiesia-snega-i-l-dy-75d696
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
118195750

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penance
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Summary

Penitentes is a glacier[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_penitentes_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Penitentes}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/penitentes}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-03}}
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