Global InformationSouthernmost glacial mass in Europe information
The southernmost persistent glacial masses in Europe are mainly small glaciers, glacierets, and perennial firn fields and patches, located in the highest mountains of the three big southern European peninsulas - the Balkan, the Apennine, and the Iberian, the southernmost ranges of the Alps and the glaciers on the european northwestern slopes of the Greater Caucasus mountains in Russia. There are summer lasting snow patches in Sierra Nevada (Corral de la Veleta glacier at 37°03′24″ disappeared completely for a first time in 1913), in Mount Olympus (40°05′08″) (Kazania cirque), in Mount Korab (41°47′28″), in Rila Mountain (the cirque of the Seven Rila Lakes, Musala and Malyovitsa (42°10′25″) ridges), in Picos de Europa (43°11′51″) in the Cantabrian Mountains, in Mount Maglić (43°16′52″) and others. However, none of them have both persistency and indications of dynamic motion. In southern direction, some 4000 km away, are the glaciers in Africa in Rwenzori Mountains (00°23′09″N), Mount Kenya (00°09′03″S) and Mount Kilimanjaro (03°04′33″S).
List by latitude:[1][2][3]
1. Mount Bazardüzü northeast slope glaciers (41°13′28″), Greater Caucasus, Russia/Azerbaijan
2. Snezhnika glacieret (41°46′09″), Pirin massif, Bulgaria[4]
3. Banski Suhodol Glacier (41°46′54″), Pirin mountain, Bulgaria
4. Mertur cirque glacier (42°23’55”), Hekurave range, Accursed Mountains, Albania
5. Maja Jezercë glaciers and glacierets (42°26’27”), Accursed Mountains, Albania
6. Calderone glacier (42°28′10”) Gran Sasso massif, Apennine Mountains, Italy
7. Kolata glacieret (42°29′00”), Kolata massif, Accursed Mountains, Albania/Montenegro
8. Aneto glacier (42°37′32”), Aneto-Maladeta, Pyrenees, Spain
9. Posets glacier (42°39′10”), Pyrenees, Spain
10. Monte Perdido glacier (42°40′38”), Pyrenees, Spain
11. Mount Jimara Glacier (42°43′15″), the european northwestern slopes of Mount Jimara, Khokh Range, Greater Caucasus, Russia
12. Kolka Glacier (42°44′23″), the european northwestern slopes of Mount Kazbek, Khokh Range, Greater Caucasus, Russia
13. Picos del infierno glacierets (42°46′49”), Pyrenees, Spain
14. Debeli Namet glacier (43°06′50”), Durmitor, Montenegro
15. Monte Clapier glacier (44°06′44″), Maritime Alps, Italy
16. Monte Argentera glaciers (44°10′40″), Maritime Alps, Italy
17. Triglav Glacier (46°22′41.999″N 13°50′12.001″E), Julian Alps, Slovenia
18. Skuta Glacier (46°21′50″N 14°33′11″E), Savinja Alps, Slovenia
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- ^ "(the pirin mountains, bulgaria) in the last ten years" (PDF). igipz.pan.pl. Retrieved 5 February 2014.