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Now on to the episode. This is But Why a podcast for Curious Kids.

I'm Jane Lentholm.

On this show, we take questions from curious

kids all over the world, and we find cool people who can offer answers. Today, I'm at Solchemy

Yoko. That's a glacier in southern Iceland. It's been around for four to six hundred years.

We're visiting it to see what a glacier looks like,

but you have sent us a lot of glacier questions over the years.

So we're going to go now to the University of Iceland

to talk with somebody who can actually explain what they are.

My name is Guzfina Adalgasturt.

It's a very long Icelandic name.

As you may have figured out by now, but why went to Iceland? That's an island country in the

North Atlantic Ocean, a little closer to Europe than it is to North America.

One of the things we wanted to learn more about while we were visiting was glaciers.

So after walking around looking at an amazing glacier called Solheimayokur, we went in search

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