SAILORS on the Royal Navy's Plymouth-based polar research ship have found an enormous Antarctic glacier vanishing at an alarming rate.
The mighty Sunshine Glacier has shrunk by a seventh in 20 years - meaning an area the size of more than 130 football pitches has melted away.
Where HMS Protector's small hi-tech survey boat sailed was a towering wall of ice some 700 metres from the glacier's snout or end - just two decades ago.
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