Biferten Glacier
The Biferten Glacier is a 4-kilometre-long glacier situated in the Glarus Alps in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of 2.81 square kilometres. The glacier is located east of the Tödi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 2,863 metres
- Description: glacier in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Bifertengletscher”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tödi and Grünhornhütte.
Tödi
Peak
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The Tödi, is a mountain massif and with the mountain peak Piz Russein the highest mountain in the Glarus Alps and the highest summit in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.
Piz Urlaun
Peak
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Piz Urlaun is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Glarus and Grisons. It lies on the ridge between the Tödi and the Bifertenstock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trun and Rabius.
Trun
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trun is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the canton of the Grisons in Switzerland. The municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun. Trun is situated 8 km southeast of Biferten Glacier.
Rabius
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rabius is the largest village in the municipality of Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a station on the Disentis - Reichenau line of the Rhaetian Railway. Rabius is situated 8 km south of Biferten Glacier.
Schlans
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schlans is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun. Schlans is situated 9 km southeast of Biferten Glacier.
Biferten Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Glarus Süd, Glarus, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.80734° or 46° 48′ 26″ northLongitude
8.93364° or 8° 56′ 1″ eastElevation
2,863 metres (9,393 feet)Open location code
8FRCRW4M+WFOpenStreetMap ID
way 34602240OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Polish—“Biferten Glacier” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “比費爾滕冰川”
- Chinese: “比费尔滕冰川”
- Dutch: “Biferten Glacier”
- Esperanto: “Biferten-Glaĉero”
- Esperanto: “Bifertenfirn”
- Esperanto: “Linth-Glaĉero”
- German: “Bifertenfirn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bifertenbreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bifertenfirn”
- Polish: “Bifertenfirn”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Grünhorn and Glarner Tödi.
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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 “Biferten Glacier”. Photo: Jo in Riederalp, CC BY-SA 3.0.