Photo: Kluane National Park Glacier Picture Yukon Territory

A massive glacier blankets the landscape in Kluane National Park in the Yukon Territory where large pieces of ice are continuously breaking away and gradually melting.

Kluane National Park in the Yukon Territory in Canada covers an area of about 22,000 square kilometers where three massive glaciers are located. The Donjek, Lowell and Kaskawulsh are the main glaciers around Kluane National Park and as the ice melts away from the glaciers, large rivers have been created.The glacier is continuously moving at a fairly slow pace and as pieces of the glacier calve, they slowly melt and make their way downstream into the frigid rivers. This melting process could happen fairly rapidly or it could take hundreds of years before there is nothing left, but that will totally depend on the climate changes which pass through the Yukon Territory. It has take thousands of years for these glaciers to form and nobody knows how the process will continue in the future.Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory, Canada.