Eiskar Glacier
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The Eiskar is the only existing glacier in the Carnic Alps, a mountain range in Austria and Italy. It is a typical cirque glacier that, thanks to its shady location and to avalanche breaks in its catchment area, has been able to survive at the relatively low height of 2160–2390 metres above sea level. Although the ice sheet in good times could calve over a rock wall down to the pasture of Valentinalm below, currently it is rapidly becoming a sheet of dead ice. In the period 2007–2014, however, no significant retreat was observed. The glacier may be accessed from below up a klettersteig, a
Key facts
- Gletscher.name
- Eiskar
- Gletscher.image
- Kargletscher Eiskar.jpg
- Gletscher.location
- Carinthia, Austria
- Gletscher.type
- Cirque glacier
- Gletscher.length
- 0.4 km
- Gletscher.area
- 0.151 sq km
- Gletscher.elevation_max
- 2390 m
- Gletscher.elevation_min
- 2160 m
- Gletscher.status
- Only remaining glacier of the Carnic Alps
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- glacier
- Country
- Austria
- Located in
- Kötschach-Mauthen
- Area
- 0.152
- Elevation
- 2390
- Image
- Kargletscher Eiskar.jpg
- Length
- 400
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- Commons category
- Eiskar
- mountain range
- Carnic Alps
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The Eiskar is the only existing glacier in the Carnic Alps, a mountain range in Austria and Italy. It is a typical cirque glacier that, thanks to its shady location and to avalanche breaks in its catchment area, has been able to survive at the relatively low height of 2160–2390 metres above sea level. Although the ice sheet in good times could calve over a rock wall down to the pasture of Valentinalm below, currently it is rapidly becoming a sheet of dead ice. In the period 2007–2014, however, no significant retreat was observed. The glacier may be accessed from below up a klettersteig, and from above quite easily via the Kellerwand rock face. Remains of defensive positions witness to the mountain war of 1915-1918.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eiskar Glacier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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