Langtauferer also
| Langtauferer also | ||
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 Langtauferer Ferner (2012) |
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| location | South Tyrol ( Italy ) | |
| Mountains | Ötztal Alps | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 3.9 km (1980) | |
| surface | 3.93 km² (2006) | |
| Exposure | northwest | |
| Altitude range | 3730 m - 2410 m (1992) | |
| Ice thickness | ⌀ 50 m | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Karlinbach → Reschensee | |
| particularities | In the lower part of the glacier tongue there has been a 100 m wide and 60 m deep glacier pot since 2019. | |
The Langtauferer Ferner ( Italian Vedretta di Vallelunga ) is the largest glacier in the part of the Ötztal Alps that belongs to South Tyrol . It is located at the end of the Langtaufer valley on the north side of the Weißkugel ( 3739 m ).
Like all South Tyrolean glaciers, the Langtauferer Ferner has lost a lot of its substance in recent years. The area in 2006 was 3.93 km², after an area of 4.24 km² had been measured in 1997.
The nutrient area of the glacier north of the Weißkugel is divided into two parts by its north ridge. The larger part extends east of the north ridge below the Weißkugeljoch ( 3362 m ) and the Langtauferer Spitze ( 3529 m ), the smaller to the west of it. Another, albeit now insignificant, tributary comes from the Langtauferer Joch ( 3172 m ). Between Langtauferer Spitze and Langtauferer Joch there used to be a connection to the Langtauferer-Joch-Ferner , which flows east to the Hintereisferner . An almost 6 hectare part of the glacier on the north ridge of the Langtaufererspitze is no longer in contact with the rest of the glacier area.
A noticeable peculiarity of the Langtauferer Ferners used to be the transfluence of the Gepatschferner . Over parts of the Langtaufer ice walls , ice from the Gepatschferner flowed over a mighty icefall to the Langtauferer Ferner on its north side. The direct connection was broken at the beginning of the 21st century, there is still mass transfer through ice falls .
The Weißkugelhütte is located west of the glacier tongue . In 2007, the ascent path to the hut from the Melager Alm was set up as a glacier educational trail that explains glacial morphology and focuses on glacier retreat .
Since 2018 there has been an impressive glacier gate at the end of the glacier tongue, which changes year after year.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c WGMS: Fluctuations of Glaciers Database. World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich 2012 ( DOI: 10.5904 / wgms-fog-2012-11 ), accessed on February 7, 2013
- ↑ a b Christoph Knoll, Hanns Kerschner: A glacier inventory for South Tyrol, Italy, based on airborne laser-scanner data. In: Annals of Glaciology. Volume 50, 2009, pp. 46–52 ( online ; PDF; 287 kB)