Hispar Glacier
Hispar Glacier is a 49-km long glacier situated in the Karakoram Mountains of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. It converges with the Biafo Glacier, which extends for 67 kilometers, at the Hispar La, reaching an altitude of 5,128 meters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 3,979 metres
- Description: glacier in Pakistan
- Also known as: “Khisper Glacier”
Photo: Vasiq Eqbal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Yousaf Feroz Gill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hispar Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Hispar Glacier” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Glacera Hispar”
- Cebuano: “Hispar Glacier”
- Chinese: “喜士帕爾冰川”
- Czech: “Hispar”
- Czech: “ledovec Hispar”
- French: “glacier d’Hispar”
- French: “Glacier d’Hispar”
- Georgian: “ხისპარი”
- Georgian: “ჰისპარი”
- German: “Hispar-Gletscher”
- German: “Hispargletscher”
- Hindi: “हिस्पर हिमनद”
- Lithuanian: “Hisparo ledynas”
- Persian: “یخچال هیسپار”
- Polish: “Hispar”
- Russian: “Хиспар”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Hispar”
- Urdu: “ہسپر گلیشر”
- Uzbek: “Hispar muzligi”
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