Albigna glacier
The Albigna Glacier ( Rhaeto-Romanic ) is a valley glacier in Bergell , in the south of the canton of Graubünden , Switzerland . It is 3.5 km long with an average width of 700 to 800 m and covers an area of approximately 3.5 km² with the side ridges.
Its starting point takes the Albigna Glacier at about 2800 m in a Kar at the foot of Sciora Dadent ( 3275 m above sea level. M. ) and Cima della Bondasca ( 3289 m above sea level. M. ), of which the border between Italy and Switzerland runs. The glacier flows at a relatively low inclination of about 15% to the north and will be here in the west of the Sciora Dafora ( 3169 m above sea level. M. ), on the east by the Cima di Castello ( 3379 m above sea level. M. flanked). The glacier tongue is currently at the far end of the Albigna reservoir at an altitude of 2160 m . The outflow of the reservoir is the Albigna , which flows into the Mera at Vicosoprano .
During the high stage of the Little Ice Age around the middle of the 19th century and until the end of the 1960s, the firn fields on the western slope of the Cima di Castello reached down over the rocky slopes to the Albigna glacier into the valley. Today the glacier tongue of these firn fields has retreated to almost 2600 m .
Web links
- Research institute for hydraulic engineering, hydrology and glaciology (VAW) of the ETH Zurich : Albignagletscher. In: Glacier Natural Hazards. ( ethz.ch ( page no longer available ), also as a PDF ( page no longer available )).
- Albigna Glacier on the ETHorama platform
Coordinates: 46 ° 18 ′ 9 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 41" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred forty-six / 130288