Southern Ice Field

The Southern Patagonian ice field is a large area of continental ice (the third largest in the world after those in Antarctica and Greenland; the largest of all non-polar continental and with land access), located in the Patagonian Andes, in Argentina. A total of 49 glaciers emerge from the ice field, including the Upsala (902 km²), Viedma (978 km²), and Perito Moreno (258 km²) glaciers in Argentina; and in Chile Jorge Montt, Pius XI (the largest in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica, with 1,265 km²), O'Higgins, Bernardo, Tyndall, and Gray. Much of its extension is protected by being part of different national parks: those of Bernardo O'Higgins and Torres del Paine in Chile and Los Glaciares in Argentina.