Glaciers extended over much of Europe during the last ice age

During the last age, ending about 20,000 years ago, glaciers extended over much of northrn Europe and also over much of Canada and some of the northern United States. This map shows Europe during its last glaciation, about 20,000 to 70,000 years before present, in northern Europe called Weichselian Glaciation, in the Alpine Region Würm Glaciation.

Learn more:

• Glaciers and icecaps
• Where is Earth's water?
• Ice and snow and the water cycle

More glacier and icecap pictures:

• Satellite view of Earth
• Muir and Riggs Glaciers, Alaska
• Endpoint of Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
• All USGS pictures about glaciers