Severny Island ice cap

Severny Island ice cap
Severny Island ice cap
Location	Severny Island, ; Novaya Zemlya, ; Russian Federation
Coordinates	75°30′N 60°00′E / 75.500°N 60.000°ECoordinates: 75°30′N 60°00′E / 75.500°N 60.000°E
Area	20,500 km2 (7,920 sq mi)
Length	400 km (250 mi)
Width	50 km (30 mi)

Severny Island ice cap is an ice cap on Severny Island, northern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia. It covers 40% of Severny Island (which is the 30th largest island in the world) at total area of approximately 20,500 km² (7,900 sq mi) which, if Novaya Zemlya is considered within Europe, makes it the largest glacier by area in Europe ahead of Vatnajökull at 8,100 km² (3,100 sq mi), and Austfonna at 7,800 km² (3,000 sq mi).

Glaciers[]

A number of glaciers flow from the inner ice cap to Severny Island's coastline. Mount Kruzenshtern, the highest point of Novaya Zemlya, rises on the western edge of the Severny Island ice cap, near the head of the Glazov Glacier.^[1]

View of Inostrantsev Glacier (Lednik Inostrantseva). West coast.

NASA picture of (left), (middle) and glaciers of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group. East coast.

West coast[]

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the Barents Sea.

(Lednik Anny)
(Lednik Anuchina)
(Lednik Arkhangel'skoy Guby)
(Lednik Brounova)
(Lednik Borzova)
(Lednik Bull)
(Lednik Bunge)
(Lednik Chayeva)
(Lednik Chernishëva)
Glazov Glacier (Lednik Glazov)
Inostrantsev Glacier (Lednik Inostrantseva)
(Lednik Karbasnikova)
(Lednik Krayniy)
(Lednik Lakrua)
(Lednik Maka)
(Lednik Nizkiy)
(Lednik Pavlova)
(Lednik Petersena)
(Lednik Popova)
(Lednik Rykachëva)
(Lednik Severnyy)
(Lednik Shirokiy)
(Lednik Shokal'skogo)
(Lednik Taisiya)
(Lednik Vel'kena)
(Lednik Vera)
(Lednik Vize)
(Lednik Voyekova)
(Lednik Yuzhnyy)

East coast[]

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the Kara Sea.

(Lednik Goluboy)
(Lednik Kropotkina)
(Lednik Moschnyy)
(Lednik Nansena)
(Lednik Polisadova)
(Lednik Serp i Molot)
(Lednik Vitte)
Nordenskiöld Glacier (Lednik Nordenshel'da), group of four glaciers:
- (Lednik Vershinskogo)
- (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy^[2]
- (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
- (Lednik Roze)

Other glaciers[]

with their terminus in ^[3]

Nunataks[]

Gora Severny Nunatak is a nunatak located in the northern section of the long ice cap not far from the western coast of the island.^[4] Further to the northeast there is another nunatak between the two outlets of the Bunge Glacier.^[5]

References[]

^ Google Earth
^ "Lednik Sredniy". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
^ AGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999-2016 retreat
^ "Gora Severnyy Nunatak". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
^ J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. pp. 82-84

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[GЕ-1] Google Earth

[mapcarta-Lednik_Sredniy-2] "Lednik Sredniy". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.

[3] AGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999-2016 retreat

[mapcarta-4] "Gora Severnyy Nunatak". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 September 2016.

[Zeeberg-5] J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. pp. 82-84

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