Mer de Glace
The Mer de Glace is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and 200 metres deep, but when all its tributary glaciers are taken into account, it can be regarded as the longest and largest glacier in France, and the second longest in the Alps after the Aletsch Glacier.
- Glacier with an elevation of around 1,950 metres (6,400 feet)
- Description: glacier in France
- Also known as“Mar de Glace”“Mer de Glace (Francie : ledovec)”“Mer de Glace Glacier”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tête de Trélaporte and Aiguille des Grands Charmoz.
Aiguille des Grands Charmoz
The Aiguille des Grands Charmoz is a mountain in the Mont Blanc Massif in Haute-Savoie, France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Praz and Chamonix.
Argentière
Argentière is a picturesque skiing, alpine walking and… Argentière is situated 8 km north of Mer de Glace.
Mer de Glace
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Latitude
45.91367° or 45° 54′ 49″ north
Longitude
6.93475° or 6° 56′ 5″ east
Open location code
8FQ8WW7M+FW
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Mer de Glace” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mer de Glace”
- Bulgarian: “Мер дьо Глас”
- Catalan: “Mer de Glace”
- Cebuano: “Mer de Glace”
- Chinese: “冰海冰川”
- Croatian: “Ledenjak Mer de Glace”
- Czech: “Mer de Glace (Francie : ledovec)”
- Czech: “Mer de Glace”
- Danish: “Mer de Glace”
- Dutch: “Mer de Glace”
- Esperanto: “Maro de Glacio”
- Finnish: “Mer de Glace”
- French: “Mer de Glace”
- Georgian: “მერ-დე-გლასი”
- German: “Mer de Glace (Francie : ledovec)”
- German: “Mer de Glace”
- Hungarian: “Mer de Glace”
- Italian: “Mer de Glace”
- Japanese: “メール・ド・グラース氷河”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mer de Glace”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mer de Glace”
- Norwegian: “Mer de Glace”
- Polish: “Mer de Glace”
- Portuguese: “Mar de Gelo”
- Russian: “Мер-де-Глас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ledenjak Mer de Glace”
- Spanish: “Mer de Glace”
- Turkish: “Mer de Glace”
- Ukrainian: “Мер-де-Глас”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Fenêtre de Trélaporte and Thendia Glacier.
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