Athabasca Glacier
The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier currently loses depth at a rate of about 5 metres per year and has receded more than 1.5 km and lost over half of its volume in the past 125 years.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snow Dome.
Athabasca Glacier
- Glacier with an elevation of 2,297 metres (7,536 feet)
- Description: glacier in Alberta, Canada
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
52.18332° or 52° 11′ north
Longitude
-117.26399° or 117° 15′ 50″ west
Open location code
95445PMP+8C
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Athabasca Glacier” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر أثاباسكا الجليدي”
- Armenian: “Աթաբասկա”
- Basque: “Athabasca glaziarra”
- Bengali: “আথাবাস্কা হিমবাহ”
- Cebuano: “Athabasca Glacier”
- Chinese: “阿萨巴斯卡冰川”
- Chinese: “阿薩巴斯卡冰川”
- Dutch: “Athabascagletsjer”
- French: “glacier Athabasca”
- French: “Glacier Athabasca”
- German: “Athabasca-Gletscher”
- German: “Athabascagletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון אתאבסקה”
- Hebrew: “קרחון אתבסקה”
- Japanese: “アサバスカ氷河”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Athabasca Peng-hô”
- Portuguese: “Geleira Athabasca”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar Athabasca”
- Russian: “Атабаска”
- Serbian: “Atabaska”
- Serbian: “Athabasca Glacier”
- Serbian: “Атабаска”
- Slovenian: “Ledenik Athabasca”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Athabasca”
- Swedish: “Athabasca Glacier”
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