Severny Island ice cap

Severny Island ice cap
Location Severny Island,
Novaya Zemlya,
Russian Federation
Coordinates 75°30′N 60°00′E / 75.500°N 60.000°E / 75.500; 60.000Coordinates: 75°30′N 60°00′E / 75.500°N 60.000°E / 75.500; 60.000
Area 20,500 km2 (7,920 sq mi)
Length 400 km (250 mi)
Width 50 km (30 mi)

Severny Island ice cap is an ice cap on Severny Island, northern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia. It covers 40% of Severny Island (which is the 30th largest island in the world) at total area of about 20,500 km2 (7,900 sq mi) which makes it the largest glacier by area in Europe (if counted as part of it) easily beating second ranking Austfonna at 8,105 km2 (3,129 sq mi) and third ranking Vatnajökull at 8,100 km2 (3,100 sq mi).

Glaciers

A number of glaciers flow from the inner ice cap to Severny Island's coastline.

View of Inostrantsev Glacier (Lednik Inostrantseva). West coast.
NASA picture of Rozhdestvensky (left), Novopashenny (middle) and Roze glaciers of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group. East coast.

West coast

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the Barents Sea.

  • Anna Glacier (Lednik Anny)
  • Anuchin Glacier (Lednik Anuchina)
  • Arkhangel Bay Glacier (Lednik Arkhangel'skoy Guby)
  • Brounov Glacier (Lednik Brounova)
  • Borzov Glacier (Lednik Borzova)
  • Bull Glacier (Lednik Bull)
  • Bunge Glacier (Lednik Bunge)
  • Chayev Glacier (Lednik Chayeva)
  • Chernishev Glacier (Lednik Chernishëva)
  • Glazov Glacier (Lednik Glazov)
  • Inostrantsev Glacier (Lednik Inostrantseva)
  • Karbasnikov Glacier (Lednik Karbasnikova)
  • Krayniy Glacier (Lednik Krayniy)
  • Lakrua Glacier (Lednik Lakrua)
  • Mack Glacier (Lednik Maka)
  • Nizkiy Glacier (Lednik Nizkiy)
  • Pavlov Glacier (Lednik Pavlova)
  • Petersen Glacier (Lednik Petersena)
  • Popov Glacier (Lednik Popova)
  • Rikachev Glacier (Lednik Rykachëva)
  • Severnyy Glacier (Lednik Severnyy)
  • Shirokiy Glacier (Lednik Shirokiy)
  • Shokalsky Glacier (Lednik Shokal'skogo)
  • Taisiya Glacier (Lednik Taisiya)
  • Velken Glacier (Lednik Vel'kena)
  • Vera Glacier (Lednik Vera)
  • Vize Glacier (Lednik Vize)
  • Voyekov Glacier (Lednik Voyekova)
  • Yuzhnyy Glacier (Lednik Yuzhnyy)

East coast

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the Kara Sea.

  • Goluboy Glacier (Lednik Goluboy)
  • Kropotkin Glacier (Lednik Kropotkina)
  • Moschnyy Glacier (Lednik Moschnyy)
  • Nansen Glacier (Lednik Nansena)
  • Polisadov Glacier (Lednik Polisadova)
  • Serp i Molot Glacier (Lednik Serp i Molot)
  • Vitte Glacier (Lednik Vitte)
  • Nordenskiöld Glacier (Lednik Nordenshel'da), group of four glaciers:
    • Vershinsky Glacier (Lednik Vershinskogo)
    • Novopashenny Glacier (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy[1]
    • Rozhdestvensky Glacier (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
    • Roze Glacier (Lednik Roze)

Other glaciers

Nunataks

Gora Severny Nunatak is a nunatak located in the northern section of the long ice cap not far from the western coast of the island.[3] Further to the northeast there is another nunatak between the two outlets of the Bunge Glacier.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lednik Sredniy". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. ↑ AGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999-2016 retreat
  3. ↑ "Gora Severnyy Nunatak". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  4. ↑ J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. pp. 82-84


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