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Wikipedia: The Aletsch Glacier or Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km and covers more than 120 square kilometres (more than 45 square miles) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed by three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness is estimated to be near 1 km.
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![Jungfrau-Aletsch area seen from space [Jungfrau-Aletsch area seen from space]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Aletsch_s.jpg)
![View from the hut [View from the hut]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/070915_Panorama_Aletschgletscher_von_Konkordiah_C3_BCtte_s.jpg)
![Lower part of the glacier [Lower part of the glacier]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Aletschgletscher_mit_Pinus_cembra2_s.jpg)
![At Concordia [At Concordia]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Aletschhorn_from_Konkordia_2_s.jpg)
![Near Märjelen [Near Märjelen]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Grosser_Aletschgletscher_1_s.jpg)
![The beginning of the Massa river (the glacier is visible on the right) [The beginning of the Massa river (the glacier is visible on the right)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Massa_river_2_s.jpg)
![Upper snows of the Jungfraufirn near Jungfraujoch [Upper snows of the Jungfraufirn near Jungfraujoch ]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Jungfraufirn_2_s.jpg)