LIST OF GLACIERS


This is a 'list of glaciers'.
''Due to somewhat sparse information, some glaciers, especially those in the tropics, may no longer exist as listed. This is especially true for glaciers in Africa and New Guinea.''


Contents
Africa
Kenya
Ruwenzori Range
Tanzania
Antarctica
Asia
Tajikistan
Pakistan
China
Nepal
India
Japan
Europe
Iceland
Norway
Germany
Austria
France
Italy
Switzerland
Montenegro
North America
Canada
Greenland
Mexico
United States
Alaska
Washington
Oregon
California
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
Oceania
New Guinea
New Zealand
South America
Bolivia
Venezuela
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Argentina
Chile
Isolates
References
Notes

Africa


Furtwängler Glacier (foreground) as it appeared in August 2003. Behind the glacier are snowfields and the Northern Icefield

Kenya
(All located on the upper slopes of Mount Kenya[1])
Cesar Glacier
Diamond Glacier
Darwin Glacier (Kenya)
Forel Glacier
Gregory Glacier
Heim Glacier
Josef Glacier
Kraph Glacier
Lewis Glacier
Northey Glacier
Tyndall Glacier
Ruwenzori Range

Speke Glacier Observations on Speke Glacier, Ruwenzori Range, Uganda, , Georg, Kaser, Journal of Glaciology,
Tanzania
(All located on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro)
Arrow Glacier
Barranco Glacier
Credner Glacier
Decken Glacier
Eastern Ice Field
Furtwängler Glacier
Heim Glacier
Kersten Glacier
Penck Glacier
Ratzel Glacier
Rebmann Glacier
Uhlig Glacier

Antarctica



Aerial view of the Beardmore Glacier in 1956


Abbot Ice Shelf
Academy Glacier
Amundsen Glacier
Antarctica
Antarctic ice sheet
Axel Heiberg Glacier
Beardmore Glacier
Beaver Glacier (Enderby Land)
Beaver Glacier (Ross Ice Shelf)
Berkovitsa Glacier
Borchgrevink Glacier
Branscomb Glacier
Brunt Ice Shelf
Byrd Glacier
Canada Glacier
Clarke Glacier
Collins Glacier
Commonwealth Glacier
Crane Glacier
Crescent Glacier
Crevasse Valley Glacier
Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)
Dater Glacier
David Glacier
Debelt Glacier
Denman Glacier
Dennistoun Glacier
Devils Glacier
Dotson Ice Shelf
Drygalski Glacier
East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Ebbe Glacier
Ellen Glacier
Erebus Ice Tongue
Ferrar Glacier
Fisher Glacier
Foggydog Glacier
Fortuna Glacier
Frost Glacier

Getz Ice Shelf
Greenwell Glacier
Hammond Glacier
Harker Glacier
Hatherton Glacier
Hayes Glacier
Irvine Glacier
Keltie Glacier
Ketchum Glacier
Koettlitz Glacier
Kohler Glacier
Lambert Glacier (Worlds Largest Glacier)
Larsen Ice Shelf
Leppard Glacier
Leverett Glacier
Lillie Glacier
Lucy Glacier
Marsh Glacier
Martin Glacier
Mellor Glacier
Mertz Glacier
Mill Glacier
Minnesota Glacier
Moscow University Ice Shelf
Murgash Glacier
Nash Glacier
Nimitz Glacier
Nimrod Glacier
Ninnis Glacier
Nordenskjold Glacier
Northcliffe Glacier
Northeast Glacier
Pine Island Glacier
Polar Times Glacier
Priestley Glacier

Quartermain Glacier
Quensel Glacier
Quito Glacier
Quonset Glacier
Rayner Glacier
Recovery Glacier
Reedy Glacier
Robert Glacier
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)
Scott Glacier (East Antarctica)
Seaton Glacier
Shackleton Ice Shelf
Shackleton Glacier
Shirase Glacier
Skelton Glacier
Slessor Glacier
Smith Glacier
Socks Glacier
Stancomb-Wills Glacier
Support Force Glacier
Taylor Glacier
Thwaites Glacier
Totten Glacier
Tucker Glacier
Vanderford Glacier
Veststraumen Glacier
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West Ice Shelf
Wetmore Glacier
Wordie Ice Shelf
Wulfila Glacier
Zykov Glacier

Asia


Tajikistan

Fedchenko Glacier
Russian Geographical Society Glacier
Pakistan
Main articles: List of glaciers of Pakistan

Abruzzi Glacier
Baltoro Glacier
Batura Glacier
Biafo Glacier
Biarchedi Glacier
China

Rongbuk Glacier - Tibet
Mingyong Glacier - Yunnan
Nepal

Hunku Glacier
Khumbu Glacier
India
Uttarakhand


Gangotri Glacier
Kalabaland Glacier
Meola Glacier
Milam Glacier
Namik Glacier
Panchchuli Glacier
Pindari Glacier
Ralam Glacier
Sona Glacier

Sikkim


Zemu Glacier
Rathong Glacier
Lonak Glacier

Jammu and Kashmir


Siachen Glacier (Second Largest Glacier outside of the polar regions, largest in the Himalayas-Karakoram) [1]
Nubra Glacier
Godwin-Austen Glacier
Gondogoro Glacier
Hainablak Glacier
Hispar Glacier
Lonak Glacier
Miar Glacier
Panmah Glacier
Passu Glacier
Rupal Glacier
Sarpo Laggo Glacier
Shani Glacier
Trango Glacier
Vigne Glacier
Japan
There are presently no true glaciers in Japan, although there are small permanent snow fields (some including remnant glacial ice) and also rock glaciers.

Europe





Iceland
Main articles: Glaciers of Iceland

Eyjafjallajökull
Drangajökull
Langjökull
Hofsjökull
Mýrdalsjökull
Snæfellsjökull
Torfajökull
Vatnajökull
Norway
Main articles: List of glaciers in Norway

Austfonna
Blåmannsisen
Buarbreen
Folgefonna
Frostisen
Gihtsejiegŋa
Harbardsbreen
Hardangerjøkulen
Jostedalsbreen
Myklebustbreen
Nordre Folgefonna
Okstindbreen
Spørteggbreen
Sulitjelmaisen
Svartisen
Søndre Folgefonna
Øksfjordjøkelen
Germany

Höllentalferner
Austria

Pasterze Glacier
Schlatenkees Glacier
France

Mer de Glace
Glacier d'Argentière
Glacier de Bellecote
Glacier des Bossons
Glacier du Peclet
Glacier de Saint Sorlin
Glacier de Gebroulaz
Glacier de Sarennes
Glacier Noir
Glacier Blanc
Glacier des Glaciers
Italy

Brenva Glacier
Careser Glacier
Crystal Glacier
Forni Glacier
Frebouge Glacier
Lex Blanche Glacier
Lobbia Glacier
Lys Glacier
Madaccio Glacier
Mandrone Glacier
Mare Glacier
Marmolada Glacier
Miage Glacier
Platigliole Glacier
Praz-Sec Glacier
Presena Glacier
Toula Glacier
Tresero Glacier
Triolet Glacier
Switzerland
Main articles: List of glaciers in Switzerland

Aletsch Glacier
Allalin Glacier
Corbassière Glacier
Fee Glacier
Ferpecle Glacier
Fiescher Glacier
Findel Glacier
Gauli Glacier
Gorner Glacier
Haut Glacier d'Arolla
Bas Glacier d'Arolla
Hufi Glacier
Kander Firn
Lang Glacier
Mont Mine Glacier
Morteratsch Glacier
Obera1etsch Glacier
Oberer Glacier
Otemma Glacier
Rhône Glacier
Saleina Glacier
Glacier de Sex Rouge
Trift Glacier
Glacier de Tsijiore Nouve
Glacier de Tsanfleuron
Unteraar Glacier
Unterer Glacier
Zinal Glacier
Zmutt Glacier
Montenegro

Debeli Namet

North America


Canada


Yukon


Donjek Glacier - Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Hubbard Glacier - Yukon/Alaska
Kaskawulsh Glacier - Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Kluane Icefields - Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Klutlan Glacier - Yukon/Alaska
Logan Glacier - Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Lowell Glacier - Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon
Walsh Glacier - Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon

BC Coast Mountains


Cambria Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Franklin Glacier - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Ha-Iltzuk Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Homathko Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Juneau Icefield - British Columbia/Alaska
Klinaklini Glacier - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Lillooet Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Llewellyn Glacier - British Columbia, source of the Yukon River
Misty Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Monarch Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Pemberton Icefield - Coast Mountains, British Columbia
Stikine Icecap - British Columbia/Alaska
Tiedemann Glacier - Coast Mountains, British Columbia

BC Interior Ranges (Columbia Mountains)


Bugaboo Glacier - BC
Durrand Glacier - BC
Illecillewaet Glacier - BC
Jumbo Glacier - BC
Kokanee Glacier - BC

Canadian Rockies (BC/AB)


Angel Glacier - Jasper National Park, Alberta
Athabasca Glacier - Jasper National Park, Alberta
Berg Glacier - Mount Robson Provincial Park, BC
Bonnet Icefield - Canadian Rockies
Bow Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Chaba Icefield - Canadian Rockies
Clemenceau Icefield - Canadian Rockies
Columbia Icefield - Canadian Rockies
Crowfoot Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Dome Glacier - Jasper National Park, Alberta
Drummond Icefield - Canadian Rockies
Freshfield Icefield - Canadian Rockies
Hector Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Peyto Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Ram Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Robson Glacier - Mount Robson Provincial Park, BC
Saskatchewan Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Vulture Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
Wapta Icefield - Banff National Park, Alberta
Waputik Icefield - Banff National Park, Alberta

Nunavut


Agassiz Icecap - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Chapman Glacier - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Melville South Icecap - Melville Island, Nunavut
Müller Icecap - Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
Turnabout Glacier - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
White Glacier - Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut

Greenland


Greenland ice sheet

Jakobshavn Isbræ
Mexico


El Glaciar Norte - Popocatépetl

Glaciar de Ayoloco - Iztaccíhuatl

Glaciares Orientales - Iztaccíhuatl

Glaciar de las Rodillas - Iztaccíhuatl

Glaciar Este - Pico de Orizaba

Glaciar de Jamapa - Pico de Orizaba
United States

Exit Glacier, Alaska

Alaska


Aurora Glacier - Glacier Bay
Barnard Glacier
Bering Glacier
Brady Glacier
Carroll Glacier - Glacier Bay
Chenega Glacier - Prince William Sound
Clark Glacier - Glacier Bay
Columbia Glacier - Prince William Sound
Davidson Glacier - Lynn Canal
Exit Glacier - Kenai Peninsula
Fairweather Glacier
Grand Pacific Glacier - Glacier Bay
Grewingk Glacier - Kenai Peninsula
Guyot Glacier
Harding Icefield - Kenai Peninsula
Harvard Glacier - Prince William Sound
Hawkins Glacier
Hubbard Glacier - Disenchantment Bay
Johns Hopkins Glacier - Glacier Bay
Juneau Icefield
Kahiltna Glacier
Kennicott Glacier
Klutlan Glacier
Kuskulana Glacier
Lamplugh Glacier - Glacier Bay
LeConte Glacier

Lituya Glacier
Logan Glacier
Malaspina Glacier
Margerie Glacier - Glacier Bay
Martin River Glacier
Matanuska Glacier
McCarty Glacier - Kenai Peninsula/Harding Icefield
Meares Glacier - Prince William Sound
Mendenhall Glacier
Miles Glacier
Muir Glacier - Glacier Bay
Nabesna Glacier
Portage Glacier
Princeton Glacier - Kenai Peninsula
Reid Glacier - Glacier Bay
Riggs Glacier - Glacier Bay
Ruth Glacier - Denali
Sargent Icefield - Kenai Peninsula
Salmon Glacier
Stikine Icecap
Taku Glacier - Taku River/Juneau Icefield
Tana Glacier
Tazlina Glacier
Tustumena Glacier
Yahtse Glacier
Yale Glacier

Washington


There are hundreds of named glaciers in Washington. This list contains most of the glaciers on the volcanoes, but is very incomplete otherwise.
; Olympic Mountains;; Mount Olympus
Blue Glacier
Hoh Glacier
Hubert Glacier
Humes Glacier
Jeffers Glacier
White Glacier;; Other peaks
Anderson Glacier
Eel Glacier
Queets Glacier; North Cascades (non-volcanoes)[2]
Boston Glacier - Boston Peak
Challenger Glacier - Mount Challenger
Chickamin Glacier - Dome Peak
Columbia Glacier - Columbia Peak
East Nooksack Glacier - Mount Shuksan
Eldorado Glacier - Eldorado Peak
Hinman Glacier
Inspiration Glacier - Eldorado Peak
Klawatti Glacier
Lower Curtis Glacier
Lynch Glacier - Mount Daniel
McAllister Glacier
Neve Glacier - Snowfield Peak
Price Glacier - Mount Shuksan
Lyman Glacier (North Cascades) - North Cascades
South Cascade Glacier
Sulphide Glacier - Mount Shuksan; Mount Baker
Bastile Glacier
Boulder Glacier
Coleman Glacier
Deming Glacier
Easton Glacier
Hadley Glacier
Mazama Glacier
Park Glacier
Rainbow Glacier
Roosevelt Glacier
Shales Glacier
Squak Glacier
Talum Glacier
Thunder Glacier; Glacier Peak
Chocolate Glacier
Cool Glacier
Dusty Glacier
Ermine Glacier
Honeycomb Glacier
Kennedy Glacier
Milk Creek Glacier (vanished in the 1990s, but still exists on Topozone.com map)
North Guardian Glacier
Ptarmigan Glacier
Scimitar Glacier
Sitkum Glacier
Suiattle Glacier
Vista Glacier
White River Glacier
White Chuck Glacier
; Mount Rainier
Carbon Glacier
Cowlitz Glacier
Edmunds Glacier
Emmons Glacier
Flett Glacier
Fryingpan Glacier
Ingraham Glacier
Inter Glacier
Kautz Glacier
Liberty Cap Glacier
Nisqually Glacier
North Mowich Glacier
Ohanapecosh Glacier
Paradise Glacier
Puyallup Glacier
Pyramid Glacier
Russell Glacier
South Mowich Glacier
South Tahoma Glacier
Success Glacier
Tahoma Glacier
Van Trump Glacier
Wilson Glacier
Whitman Glacier
Williwakas Glacier
Winthrop Glacier; Goat Rocks
Conrad Glacier
McCall Glacier
Meade Glacier
Packwood Glacier
Tieton Glacier; Mount Adams
Adams Glacier
Avalanche Glacier
Crescent Glacier
Gotchen Glacier
Klickitat Glacier
Lava Glacier
Lyman Glacier
Mazama Glacier
Pinnacle Glacier
Rusk Glacier
Wilson Glacier
White Salmon Glacier; Mount St. Helens
Crater Glacier

Oregon

This list now includes all 35 named glaciers in Oregon, plus several more glaciers not named on maps, but for which published references exist.
; Wallowa Mountains
Benson Glacier - Eagle Cap; Mount Hood [3]
Coe Glacier
Coalman Glacier
Eliot Glacier
Glisan Glacier
Ladd Glacier
Langille Glacier
Newton-Clark Glacier
Palmer Glacier
Reid Glacier
Sandy Glacier
White River Glacier
Zigzag Glacier; Mount Jefferson
Whitewater Glacier
Jefferson Park Glacier
Russell Glacier
Waldo Glacier
Milk Creek Glacier
; Three Sisters Region
Thayer Glacier - North Sister
Linn Glacier - North Sister
Villard Glacier - North Sister
Collier Glacier - North/Middle Sister
Hayden Glacier - Middle Sister
Diller Glacier - Middle Sister
Renfrew Glacier - Middle Sister
Irving Glacier - Middle Sister
Prouty Glacier - South Sister
Lost Creek Glacier - South Sister
Eugene Glacier - South Sister
Skinner Glacier - South Sister
Carver Glacier - South Sister
Lewis Glacier - South Sister
Clark Glacier - South Sister
Bend Glacier - Broken Top
Crook Glacier - Broken Top
Dutchman Glacier - Mount Bachelor (unnamed on map); Other Cascade Peaks
Jack Glacier - Three Fingered Jack (unnamed on map)
Diamond Glacier - Diamond Peak (unnamed on map)
Lathrop Glacier - Mount Thielsen
Sholes Glacier - Mount McLoughlin (vanished in early 1900s, but articles and photos exist)

California

; Trinity Alps
Unnamed Glacier - Unnamed glacier under Mount Thompson ([2]); Mount Shasta
Bolam Glacier ([3])
Hotlum Glacier
Konwakiton Glacier ([4])
Mud Creek Glacier ([5])
Watkins Glacier
Wintun Glacier ([6])
Whitney Glacier
; Sierra Nevada
Conness Glacier - Mount Conness ([7])
Dana Glacier - Mount Dana
Darwin Glacier
Goethe Glacier
Lilliput Glacier - Mount Stewart ([8])
Lyell Glacier - Mount Lyell
Maclure Glacier - Mount Maclure ([9])
Matthes Glaciers
Mount Fiske Glacier
Mount Warlow Glacier
Middle Palisade Glacier - Middle Palisade ([10])
Norman Clyde Glacier - Norman Clyde Peak ([11])
Palisade Glaciers - North Palisade
Powell Glacier

Colorado


Andrews Glacier - Andrews Pass ([12])

Arapaho Glacier - between North and South Arapaho Peaks ([13])

Fair Glacier - Apache Peak ([14])

Isabelle Glacier - Shoshont Peak ([15])

Mills Glacier - Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park ([16])

Moomaw Glacier ([17])

Peck Glacier - ([18])

Rowe Glacier - ([19])

Saint Marys Glacier - ([20])

The Dove - north of Longs Peak ([21])
Montana

Gannett Glacier is the largest glacier in the American Rockies.


Blackfoot Glacier - Glacier National Park

Gem Glacier - Glacier National Park

Grasshopper Glacier - Beartooth Mountains

Grinnell Glacier - Glacier National Park

Jackson Glacier - Glacier National Park

Sperry Glacier - Glacier National Park
Wyoming


Cloud Peak Glacier - Bighorn Mountains

Dinwoody Glacier - Wind River Range

Downs Glacier - Wind River Range

Falling Ice Glacier - Teton Range

Gannett Glacier - Wind River Range

Middle Teton Glacier - Teton Range

Petersen Glacier - Teton Range

Schoolroom Glacier - Teton Range

Skillet Glacier - Teton Range

Teepe Glacier - Teton Range

Teton Glacier - Teton Range

Triple Glaciers - Teton Range

Upper Fremont Glacier - Wind River Range

Oceania



New Guinea


Puncak Jaya
New Zealand

An inventory of glaciers in New Zealand's South Island during the 1980s found there were about 3,155 glaciers with an area of at least one hectare (2.5 acres).[22] Approximately one sixth of these glaciers covered more than 10 hectares. These include:

Fox Glacier

Franz Josef Glacier

Hooker Glacier

Mueller Glacier

Murchison Glacier

Tasman Glacier
There are also six glaciers in the North Island, all on Mount Ruapehu.


South America


Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina as seen from space.

Bolivia

Chacaltaya
Venezuela

Pico Bolívar - three glaciers
Colombia

Nevado del Ruiz
Ritacuba Blanco
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Snow Mountain of Quindio
Ecuador

Antisana
El Altar
Cayambe
Chimborazo
Cotopaxi
Peru

Quelccaya Ice Cap
Argentina

Patagonian Ice Sheet
Perito Moreno Glacier
Polish Glacier
Southern Patagonian Ice Field - Argentina/Chile
Upsala Glacier
Spegazzini Glacier
Mayo Glacier
Onelli Glacier
Torre Glacier
Negro Glacier
Frias Glacier
Viedma Glacier
Lagrimas Glacier
Chile

Amalia Glacier
Balmaceda Glacier
Bernardo Glacier
Brüggen Glacier or Pío XI Glacier
Chico Glacier
Darwin Glacier
Dickson Glacier
Garibaldi Glacier
Geike Glacier
Grandes Venstisqueros Glacier
Grey Glacier
Holanda Glacier
Italia Glacier
Jorge Montt Glacier
Los Perros Glacier
Marinelli Glacier
Nef Glacier
Northern Patagonian Ice Field
O'Higgins Glacier
Patagonian Ice Sheet
Pingo Glacier
San Quintín Glacier
San Rafael Glacier
Serrano Glacier
Southern Patagonian Ice Field - Chile/Argentina
Tyndall Glacier

Isolates



Cook Glacier - Kerguelen Islands

Fortuna Glacier - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Mawson Peak - Heard Island - Indian Ocean

Jacka Glacier - Anzac Peak - Heard Island

References



Glaciers in Italy
Notes

1. The Glaciers of Equatorial East Africa, , Stefan, Hastenrath, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984,
2. Inventory of glaciers in the North Cascades, Washington, , A., Post, USGS Prof. Paper, 1971
3. Mount Hood Glaciers and Glaciations


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