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Kargletscher Eiskar.jpg
location Carinthia , Austria
Mountains Carnic Alps
Type Kar glacier
length 0.4 km
surface 0.151 km²
Altitude range 2390  m above sea level A.  -  2160  m above sea level A.
Coordinates 46 ° 36 '38 "  N , 12 ° 54' 23"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '38 "  N , 12 ° 54' 23"  E
Eiskar (Carinthia)
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particularities only existing glacier in the Carnic Alps

The Eiskar is the only existing glacier in the Carnic Alps .

It is a typical cirque glacier , which due to its shady location and Lahn aisles m in the catchment area in the low altitude of 2160-2390 so far managed to survive. In good times, the Kees could calve over a rock face to the Valentinalm below . While the transition to the 2000s looked like an imminent transition to dead ice , in the years after 2007 there were signs of consolidation: In some snowy winters, a protective layer of firn grew, which did not thaw in summer and allowed the glacier to grow . Since the firn layer enclosed the glacier up to its tip from 2007 to 2014, length measurements were not possible during those years. The 2015 measurement showed a consolidated growth of 6.7 m for this period.

Access is from below via a via ferrata, from above more leisurely via the cellar wall . Remnants of positions testify to the development through the mountain war of 1915–1918 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2005–2010 (Vol. X). Zurich 2012, p. 118 ( PDF; 5 MB )
  2. ↑ Andrea Fischer: Glacier Report 2010/2011 . In: Uphill . tape 67 , no. 2 , 2012, ZDB -ID 2240846-0 , p. 35 ( full text [PDF; 5.2 MB ; accessed on March 24, 2019]): "The Eiskar Glacier was stationary for the fourth time in a row this year."
  3. ↑ Andrea Fischer: Glacier Report 2011/2012 . In: Uphill . tape 68 , no. 2 , 2013, ZDB -ID 2240846-0 , p. 27 ( full text [PDF; 1.3 MB ; accessed on March 24, 2019]): "[...] the Eiskar glacier remained stationary for the fifth time in a row."
  4. ↑ Andrea Fischer: Glacier Report 2013/2014 . In: Uphill . tape 70 , no. 2 , 2015, ZDB -ID 2240846-0 , p. 32 ( full text [PDF; 751 kB ; accessed on March 24, 2019]): "This means that the Eiskar Glacier is classified as stationary for the seventh time in a row."
  5. ↑ A small glacier that defies climate change. Upper Austrian News, April 15, 2016

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