Antarctica is a continental glacier. Alpine glaciers are a different type of glacier.
They difference between them is where there flow. Continental glaciers are enormous ice sheets, and are found in Greenland and Antarctica. Alpine glaciers form in mountain valleys.
Greenland
Antarctica is about as large as USA and Mexico, combined. Ninety-eight percent of it is covered with an ice sheet containing innumerable glaciers.
The alpine glaciers are high in the mountains.
Cirque glaciers.
iceland
Alpine glaciers are found in mountain valleys
There are no rivers in Antarctica, it is covered in ice. There are a few glaciers.
There are 2 main types of glaciers, Continental is one, they float away from central regions. The second is alpine or valley which are the glaciers that flow down the valley from the mountain.
alpine glaciers
Antarctica has many landforms such as:glacierdesertmountainplainplateauvalleynunatakAnother AnswerBe aware that glaciers, desert, plain, plateau and valley are generally covered with ice.