Synopsis
Iain Stewart explains how Japan's mountainous landscape was carved by glaciers.
- Programme: Journeys into the Ring of Fire
- Series: 1
- Episode: 4
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2006
- Geography | Glacial landscapes | Glacial landforms | Identifying erosional glacial landforms
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