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2. List of glaciers in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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   There are glaciers in the four major drainage basins of Switzerland. The Rhine and Rhône basins are located on the northern side of the Alps while the Po basin is located on the south side of the Alps. The Danube basin is located on the east side of the Alps. There are no glaciers in the Swiss portion of the Adige basin. There are ...

3. Aletsch Glacier - Wikipedia

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   The Aletsch Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher, German pronunciation: [ˈalɛtʃˌɡlɛtʃɐ]) or Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km (14 mi) (2014), [ 2 ] a volume of 15.4 km 3 (3.7 cu mi) (2011), and covers about 81.7 km 2 (31.5 square miles) (2011) in the eastern ...

4. Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area - Wikipedia

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   The Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area (officially Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch) is located in south-western Switzerland between the cantons of Bern and Valais.It is a mountainous region in the easternmost side of the Bernese Alps, containing the northern wall of Jungfrau and Eiger, and the largest glaciated area in western Eurasia, comprising the Aletsch Glacier.

5. Swiss glacier melt exceeds average in 2024 after hot summer - AOL

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   Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Tuesday. ... the Alps' glaciers are expected to ...

6. Tourist in Swiss Alps left in tears after capturing viral ...

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   Rhone, a famous glacier in the Swiss Alps, pictured on Sept. 1, 2022. There’s a ‘huge amount’ you can do, English tourist says.

7. AP PHOTOS: To save Alpine glaciers, Swiss team monitors the ...

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   It is a sight in decline across Switzerland: glaciers sprawled across the Alps, formed over centuries of snow and sediment packed into a crystalline mass. With the glaciers now dwindling at an ...

8. Swiss Alps - Wikipedia

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   The glaciers of the Swiss Alps cover an area of 1,220 square kilometres (470 sq mi) — 3% of the Swiss territory, representing 44% of the total glaciated area in the Alps i.e. 2,800 square kilometres (1,100 sq mi). The Swiss Alps are situated south of the Swiss Plateau and north of the national border.

9. Photos show the wreckage of a 1968 plane crash unearthed by ...

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   Thawing glaciers in the Swiss Alps revealed two sets of human remains this summer, as well as the wreckage of a 1968 plane crash that had been frozen beneath snow and ice. They're some of the ...