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For example, in the Monte Perdido masif there were many more glaciers, like the Grieta, the La cascade, the Marboré, the Paillas (two glaciers), and the Astazou. As of today these glaciers still have glacier snow and some, like the Astazou or the Paillas, that are the biggest, could be considered glaciers, but they haven't been studied in ...
The majority of Europe's glaciers are found in the Alps, Caucasus and the Scandinavian Mountains (mostly Norway) as well as in Iceland. Iceland has the largest glacier in Europe, Vatnajökull Glacier, that covers between 8,100 and 8,300 km 2 in area and 3,100 km 3 in volume. Norway alone has more than 2500 glaciers (including very small ones ...
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About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Glaciers of Europe by country (15 C) Glaciers of South America by country (8 C) A.
List of glaciers in Africa; List of glaciers in the Antarctic; List of glaciers in the Antarctic: A–H; List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z; List of glaciers on Thurston Island; List of glaciers in Asia
All articles about glaciers, glaciology, geologic and geographical impacts from glaciers, as well as climatological articles directly related to glaciers. The Malaspina Glacier is so large that it can only seen in its entirety from space; this 1994 photo from STS-66 , on a rare clear day, is of an area about 100 km (60 mi) across.
This is a non-exhaustive list of the major glaciers in Switzerland. It contains their surface area, their lengths since the start of measurement and the most current year, their height and their outflow. Most of them are retreating and many will vanish. [1] All of these glaciers are located within the Swiss Alps.
Glacier of the Geikie Plateau in Greenland. The Taschachferner in the Ötztal Alps in Austria. The mountain to the left is the Wildspitze (3.768 m), second highest in Austria. With 7,253 known glaciers, Pakistan contains more glacial ice than any other country on earth outside the polar regions. [1]