Øksfjordjøkelen

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Øksfjordjøkelen
Above the Isfjordjøkelen, a partial glacier of Øksfjordjøkelen, below the Nerisen glacier, a so-called "regenerated glacier", which is fed by the avalanches of Isfjordjøkelen. The ice of the glaciers was used by fishermen and traders to cool their catch until 1949. [1]

Above the Isfjordjøkelen, a partial glacier of Øksfjordjøkelen, below the Nerisen glacier , a so-called " regenerated glacier ", which is fed by the avalanches of Isfjordjøkelen. The ice of the glaciers was used by fishermen and traders to cool their catch until 1949.

location Loppa , Kvænangen ( Troms and Finnmark )
Type Plateau glacier
surface 38.61 km² (2006)
Altitude range 1204  moh.  -  344  moh.
Coordinates 70 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 70 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Øksfjordjøkelen (Troms and Finnmark)
Øksfjordjøkelen
drainage Jøkelfjord , Langfjord (Bergsfjord), Nuvsfjord , Øksfjord
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Øksfjordjøkelen ( North Sami : Ákšovuonjiehkki ) is the ninth largest glacier on the Norwegian mainland (as of 2007). It is located at about 70 ° north latitude on the former border between the former northern Norwegian provinces ( Fylke ) Troms and Finnmark , which have formed the province of Troms og Finnmark since 2020 , and is a plateau glacier .

In 2006, an area of ​​approximately 39 km² was determined for the glacier. The plateau on which the glacier is located is at an altitude of around 350 - 1200 m. Close to the glacier is the Norwegian town of Alteidet in the municipality of Kvænangen and the European route 6 .

The glacier is divided into 13 sections by the glaciologists in the book "Atlas over Breer i North Scandinavia". The glacier water flows into four different fjords: Jøkelfjord or Isfjord , Langfjord , Nuvsfjord and Øksfjord . The individual drainage areas and also the glacier sections are not precisely defined. Although the 13 sections are laid out according to hydrological principles, they primarily refer to glacier tongues protruding into valleys and / or glacier sections that are separated by striking mountain formations.

In the Jøkelfjord, the ice reached sea level via a break (when measured on July 11, 1966, it reached the sea); However, this part does not depend directly on the ice mass of the Schild glacier, but is a secondary glacier that arises from the falling ice masses (If a separate section, would be no. 14.). As there is no continuous ice mass, this advance to the sea does not count. When measurements were taken on July 11, 1966, the deepest advance that was connected to the Schild glacier was at 330 meters above sea level. The equilibrium line (transient snow line) is between 990 and 690 meters above sea level, depending on the orientation of the sky. In some sections, no equilibrium line was established because there are no typical outlet glaciers in these sections.

literature

  • G. Østrem, N. Haakensen, o. Melander; Atlas over Breer i North Scandinavia 1973 publisher; Norges Vassdrags- og Elektisitetsvesen, Stockholm Universitet pages 192–195

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Liss M. Andreassen, Solveig H. Winsvold (ed.): Inventory of Norwegian Glaciers. Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo 2012, ISBN 978-82-410-0826-9 ( online ; PDF; 27.8 MB)
  2. ^ Brice R. Rea a, DJAE (2007). "Quantifying climate and glacier mass balance in north Norway during the Younger Dryas." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (246): 307-330
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Øksfjordjøkelen “Fjelltopper in Nord” (in Norwegian).

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