Furtwängler glacier
| Furtwängler glacier | ||
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 Furtwängler glacier (front) in August 2003, behind snowfields and the northern ice field |
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| location | East Africa , Northeast Tanzania | |
| Mountains | Kilimanjaro | |
| Type | Firnfield | |
| surface | 1.1 ha (2018) | |
| Coordinates | 3 ° 4 '15 " S , 37 ° 21' 7" E | |
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| drainage | Weruweru , Pangani | |
The Furtwängler Glacier is located near the highest point of the Kilimanjaro massif in Tanzania . The glacier is part of the remainder of the massive ice cap that used to cover Kilimanjaro. It is named after Walter Furtwängler , who, together with Siegfried König, was the first to ski down from the summit in 1912.
Between 1979 and 2007 the area of the Furtwängler Glacier decreased from 113,000 m² to 35,000 m², which corresponds to a decrease of 69%. In 2006, scientists discovered a large hole in the glacier ice, which was only six meters thick, near the center of the glacier. This widened into a crevice that separated the glacier in two. The smaller part disappeared in 2018, the larger one shrunk to 11,000 m².
The glacier drains over mountain streams to Weruweru in the river system of the Pangani .
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- ↑ a b [1]
- ^ Lonnie G. Thompson et al .: Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa. In: Science. October 2002 ( online )
- ^ Lonnie G. Thompson et al .: Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. November 2009 ( online )