GlacierDB
101 glaciers and ice bodies worldwide with area, length, type, and natural history. From Antarctica to the Alps.
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Antarctic Ice Sheet
The largest glacier on Earth. Contains 26.5 million km3 of ice. If fully melted, sea level...
Perito Moreno
One of the only advancing glaciers in the world. A UNESCO site. The ice wall is 70 m tall ...
Aletsch Glacier
The largest glacier in the Alps. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. 22.7 km long with ice up to...
Vatnajokull
The largest glacier in Europe by volume. Contains 3,100 km3 of ice. Covers 8% of Iceland. ...
Thwaites Glacier
Called the Doomsday Glacier. If it collapses, it could trigger a cascade losing enough ice...
Siachen Glacier
The second longest non-polar glacier in the world at 76 km. Located in the Karakoram at 5,...
Fox Glacier
Located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park. One of the few glaciers that descends into ...
Kilimanjaro glaciers
Hemingway wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro in 1936. The glaciers have lost 85% of their area...
Valley Glaciers (42)
Aletsch Glacier
The largest glacier in the Alps. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. 22.7 km long with ice up to...
Gorner Glacier
The second largest glacier in the Alps. Located near Zermatt and the Matterhorn. The Gorne...
Mer de Glace
The Sea of Ice - the largest glacier in France. Located in the Mont Blanc massif. Once rea...
Pasterze Glacier
The longest glacier in Austria. Located at the foot of Grossglockner, the highest mountain...
Morteratsch Glacier
One of the most accessible glaciers in Switzerland. A trail lets you walk to the glacier t...
Great Aletsch detail
The glacier contains 11 billion tons of ice. If melted, it would provide every human on Ea...
Perito Moreno
One of the only advancing glaciers in the world. A UNESCO site. The ice wall is 70 m tall ...
Upsala Glacier
The longest glacier in South America at 60 km. Part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. ...
Grey Glacier
Located in Torres del Paine National Park. Retreating significantly. The lake it feeds has...
Glacier Grey detail
The glacier has retreated over 6 km since the 1990s. Icebergs float in Lago Grey. The glac...
Torres del Paine glaciers
The park contains several major glaciers including Grey, Tyndall, and Dickson. Tyndall Gla...
Kaskawulsh Glacier
A massive glacier in the Yukon. Part of the Kluane Icefield. The Slims River was redirecte...
Ice cap Glaciers (21)
Vatnajokull
The largest glacier in Europe by volume. Contains 3,100 km3 of ice. Covers 8% of Iceland. ...
Langjokull
The second largest glacier in Iceland. A man-made ice tunnel allows visitors inside. Thinn...
Hofsjokull
The third largest glacier in Iceland. An active volcano lies beneath it. The source of sev...
Mýrdalsjökull
Covers the active Katla volcano which erupts roughly every 50-80 years. Overdue for an eru...
Jostedalsbreen
The largest glacier in mainland Europe. Located in western Norway. 60 km long with many ou...
Svartisen
The second largest glacier in mainland Norway. Located just above the Arctic Circle. The E...
Folgefonna
The third largest glacier in Norway. A summer ski center operates on it. The Folgefonna Na...
Hardangerjokulen
A glacier in the Hardanger region. The Finse 1222 hotel nearby is the highest in Norway. R...
Glaciar Norte
The largest glacier in Mexico on Pico de Orizaba at 5,636 m. Expected to disappear within ...
Cotopaxi Glacier
An ice cap on Cotopaxi volcano at 5,897 m. Retreating rapidly. The volcano is active and t...
Quelccaya Ice Cap
The largest tropical ice cap in the world. Ice cores here revealed 1,800 years of climate ...
Huascaran Glacier
Ice on Perus highest mountain at 6,768 m. A 1962 ice avalanche killed 4,000 people. A 1970...
Outlet Glaciers (12)
Petermann Glacier
A major outlet glacier in northwest Greenland. Lost a 260 km2 iceberg in 2010 and 130 km2 ...
Jakobshavn Isbrae
The fastest glacier in the world, flowing at 17 km per year. Produces 10% of all Greenland...
Lambert Glacier
The largest glacier in the world by volume. Drains about 8% of the East Antarctic Ice Shee...
Byrd Glacier
One of the largest outlet glaciers in Antarctica. Drains a massive portion of the East Ant...
Thwaites Glacier
Called the Doomsday Glacier. If it collapses, it could trigger a cascade losing enough ice...
Pine Island Glacier
The fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica. Lost an iceberg of 720 km2 in 2013. Thinning at...
Kangiata Nunata Glacier
One of the larger outlet glaciers in southwest Greenland. Retreating rapidly. Part of the ...
Helheim Glacier
A major outlet glacier in southeast Greenland. Accelerated dramatically in the early 2000s...
Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier
One of the largest outlet glaciers in east Greenland. Accelerated from 5 to 14 km per year...
Breidamerkurjokull
An outlet glacier of Vatnajokull. Jokulsarlon lagoon forms at its terminus. Diamond Beach ...
Skeidararjokull
The largest outlet glacier of Vatnajokull by area. The 1996 eruption caused a massive floo...
Dyngjujokull
An outlet glacier of Vatnajokull. The 2014-15 Holuhraun eruption occurred near its margin....
Tidewater Glaciers (5)
Pio XI Glacier
The longest glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. One of the few advancing glacier...
Hubbard Glacier
The largest tidewater glacier in North America. One of the few advancing glaciers in the w...
Columbia Glacier
One of the fastest-moving glaciers. Retreated 20 km since 1980. Calves 2 km3 of icebergs p...
Baird Glacier
A tidewater glacier in Alaska near Petersburg. Accessible only by boat or float plane. Ret...
Eqi Glacier
Called the Calving Glacier. One of the most active calving glaciers in Greenland. A resear...
Various Glaciers (4)
Glacier Bay glaciers
Glacier Bay had no glaciers 250 years ago - it was a single massive glacier. Now over 1,00...
Alps glacier overview
The Alps have lost over 50% of glacier area since 1850. Over 4,000 glaciers remain. The Al...
Himalaya overview
The Himalaya-Karakoram has over 15,000 glaciers. They feed 10 major rivers supplying 1.5 b...
Karakoram anomaly
Unlike most glaciers worldwide, some Karakoram glaciers are stable or advancing. Possibly ...
Ice shelf Glaciers (3)
Ross Ice Shelf
The largest ice shelf on Earth. Roughly the size of France. Thickness ranges from 100 m to...
Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
The second largest ice shelf. Weddell Sea lies beneath it. The Filchner side is fed by gla...
Larsen Ice Shelf
Larsen A collapsed in 1995. Larsen B collapsed in 2002 in just 35 days. Larsen C calved a ...
Ice field Glaciers (3)
Columbia Icefield
The largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains. Meltwater flows to three oceans - Arctic, At...
Juneau Icefield
One of the largest ice fields in North America. Contains 140 glaciers including Mendenhall...
Patagonia Icefields
The third largest ice body after Antarctica and Greenland. Split into Northern (4,200 km2)...
Surge Glaciers (3)
Klutlan Glacier
A surging glacier in the Yukon. Surges periodically, advancing rapidly for a few years the...
Variegated Glacier
A glacier in Alaska famous for its surging behavior. Surges every 15-20 years, advancing s...
Bakaninbreen Glacier
A surging glacier in Svalbard. Svalbard has many surge-type glaciers. The surges can advan...