Fee glacier
| Fee glacier | ||
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 Fee glacier from the north. From the left Allalinhorn , right behind it Rimpfischhorn , far right Alphubel |
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| location | Canton of Valais , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Valais Alps , Mischabel | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 6 km | |
| surface | 16.27 (1995) | |
| Exposure | Northeast | |
| Altitude range | 4200 m - 1900 m | |
| Tilt | ⌀ 14 ° (25%) | |
| Ice volume | 0.88 ± 0.22 km³ (1995) | |
| Coordinates | 634 399 / 103633 | |
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| drainage | Feevispa → Saaser Vispa → Rhone | |
The Fee Glacier is a two-part glacier above Saas Fee on the east side of the Mischabel group in the Valais Alps . It is around 6 kilometers long and covers a total area of 16 km². The over an altitude range of 4200 m above sea level. M. to 1900 u m. M. extending glacier is divided into North Fee Glacier (also Small Fee Glacier ) and South Fee Glacier (also Large Fee Glacier ). The glacier has the number B53 / 4 in the Swiss glacier inventory.
location
The North Fee Glacier is a valley glacier that has its origin in the steep eastern flank of the Mischabel group. It ends in a narrow, steep tongue north of Längfluh . The front part of the tongue was buried in a landslide over a length of 500 meters in 1955 . Over the next 30 years, the glacier ran over the debris in this area and the tongue regenerated. It is only since 1988 that the ice has been retreating again - at times more rapidly -. The area of the North Fee Glacier was about 7.5 km² in 1973.
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State 1918
Ice grotto
The South Fee Glacier is a multi-part mountain glacier that ends in several tongue lobes on the northern slope of the Allalinhorn ( 4027 m above sea level ).
Both parts of the glacier feed the Feevispa , a side stream of the Saas Vispa , which carries the water through the Saas Valley to the Rhone . During the high stage of the Little Ice Age around the middle of the 19th century, the Fee Glacier partially reached into the valley basin behind Saas Fee, with the Glacier Alp being enclosed by the two ice streams.
Development
Large parts of the South Fee Glacier are developed as a ski area and belong to the Saas-Fee ski area , the second largest summer ski area in Switzerland after Zermatt . In the summer it is reached by two 3-cable aerial ropeways (1st and 2nd section) and in the 3rd section with a funicular, the Metro Alpin , underground to the Mittelallalin station at 3456 m above sea level. M. tapped. The ice pavilion (ice grotto) in the Fee Glacier is a tourist attraction and with 5500 m 3 the largest in the world.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of the ETH Zurich : Feegletscher. In: Glacier Natural Hazards. ( ethz.ch ( page no longer available ), also as a PDF ( page no longer available ), accessed on November 18, 2012).
- ↑ a b Daniel Farinotti, Matthias Huss, Andreas Bauder, Martin Funk: An estimate of the glacier ice volume in the Swiss Alps. In: Global and Planetary Change. 68: 225-231, 2009 ( online ; PDF; 756 kB).
- ↑ a b c Editing of the Swiss Lexicon, Glacier Commission of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (ed.): Glaciers, snow and ice. Page 17. Verlag Schweizer Lexikon Mengis + Ziehr, Lucerne 1993, ISBN 3-9520144-2-7
- ↑ Firne and ice in the Swiss Alps, glacier inventory , ETH Zurich Geographical Institute, publication No. 57 Zurich 1976 page 86
- ^ Research institute for hydraulic engineering, hydrology and glaciology (VAW) of the ETH Zurich (ed.): Feegletscher (North). In: Swiss Glacier Measurement Network. ( ethz.ch , also as PDF , accessed on November 20, 2012).
- ↑ http://www.seilbahninventar.ch:/ VS-SAF-10-s Glacier lift Längfluh - Panoramaplatz, Saas-Fee, ski lift
- ↑ http://www.myswitzerland.com:/ Eispavillon - Saas-Fee
Web links
- Fee glacier on the ETHorama platform
- Photo report about the ice break on September 20, 2009
- Map section at map.geo.admin.ch