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EspañolLIST 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.''
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
Asia
Europe
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, YukonBC 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 ColumbiaBC 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, AlbertaNunavut ★ 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
Washington
There are hundreds of named glaciers in Washington. This list contains most of the glaciers on the volcanoes, but is very incomplete otherwise.
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.
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.
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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