Triftsee
The Triftsee is a proglacial lake below the Trift Glacier in Gadmen, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It began forming in the late 1990s as the glacier retreated and expanded significantly after 2001.
- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 1,652 metres (5,420 feet)
- Description: lake in Gadmen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
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Radlefshorn
Peak
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Triftsee
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Latitude
46.69036° or 46° 41′ 25″ north
Longitude
8.3586° or 8° 21′ 31″ east
Open location code
8FRCM9R5+4C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = water
OpenStreetMap feature
water = lake
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Triftsee” goes by many names.
TriftseeNorwegian Nynorsk
ТрифтRussian
Трифт (озеро)Russian
ТрифтзеRussian
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