France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Haute-Savoie

Mer de Glace

The Mer de Glace is a valley located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French . 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 .
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  • Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,951 metres
  • Description: glacier in France
  • Also known as: “Mar de Glace”, “Mer de Glace (Francie : ledovec)”, “Mer de Glace Glacier”, and “Mer-de-glace”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tête de Trélaporte and Aiguille des Grands Charmoz.

Peak
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is a peak.

Peak
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The is a mountain in the Mont Blanc Massif in , .

Peak
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The , informally known as The Grepon, is a mountain in the Mont Blanc Massif in , . The Grepon has a Southern and Northern peak, which are the highest points of a sharp granite ridge to the east of the Glacier des Nantillons above and northeast of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Les Praz and Chamonix.

Hamlet
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Les-Praz-de-Chamonix is a mountain village in the , part of the commune of . Altitude: 1060 m.

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is a resort in the region of France, bordering Italy, at the foot of . It's regarded as the birthplace of mountaineering and as one of its capitals.

Village
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is a picturesque skiing, alpine walking and mountaineering village in the , part of the commune of , at an altitude of 1,252 m. is situated 8 km north of Mer de Glace.

Mer de Glace

Latitude
45.91367° or 45° 54′ 49″ north
Longitude
6.93475° or 6° 56′ 5″ east
Elevation
1,951 metres (6,401 feet)
Open location code
8FQ8WW7M+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 188343637
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­glacier
Geo­Names ID
2994434
Wiki­data ID
Q583591
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Satellite Map

Discover Mer de Glace from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Turkish—“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”
  • “Mer de Glace”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Montenvers and Couloir Mummery.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fentêtre de Trélaporte and Thendia Glacier.

Haute-Savoie: Must-Visit Destinations

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mer de Glace”. Photo: snappa2006, CC BY 2.0.