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Glaciers

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  • Type: Glacier
  • Description: large persistent body of ice
  • Also known as: “glacier”, “Glacier”, and “یخچال ابیدر”
Photo: Lucag, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Glaciers

Latitude
36.369° or 36° 22′ 8″ north
Longitude
51.0714° or 51° 4′ 17″ east
Open location code
8H8H939C+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 973461791
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­glacier
Wiki­data ID
Q35666
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Glaciers” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “gletser”
  • Afrikaans: “Gletser”
  • Albanian: “akullnaja”
  • Albanian: “Akullnaja”
  • Albanian: “akullnajat”
  • Arabic: “الأنهار الجليدية”
  • Arabic: “المثالج”
  • Arabic: “المجلدة”
  • Arabic: “المجمدة”
  • Arabic: “جليدية”
  • Arabic: “مثالج”
  • Arabic: “مثلجة”
  • Arabic: “نهر جليدي”
  • Aragonese: “chelera”
  • Aragonese: “glacial”
  • Aragonese: “glaciar”
  • Aragonese: “Glaciar”
  • Aragonese: “glazial”
  • Aragonese: “glaziar”
  • Armenian: “սառցադաշտ”
  • Armenian: “Սառցադաշտ”
  • Armenian: “Սառցադաշտեր”
  • Arpitan: “biouègno”
  • Arpitan: “gllaciér”
  • Arpitan: “Gllaciér”
  • Arpitan: “rouése”
  • Assamese: “হিমবাহ”
  • Asturian: “glaciar”
  • Asturian: “Glaciar”
  • Azerbaijani: “buzlaq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buzlaq”
  • Basque: “glaziar”
  • Basque: “Glaziar”
  • Basque: “glaziarra”
  • Basque: “karrugune”
  • Bavarian: “Gletscha”
  • Belarusian: “ледавік”
  • Belarusian: “Ледавік”
  • Belarusian: “ледавікі”
  • Belarusian: “ляднік”
  • Bengali: “হিমবাহ”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्लेशियर”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमनद”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमनदी”
  • Bhojpuri: “हिमानी”
  • Bosnian: “glečer”
  • Bosnian: “Lednik”
  • Breton: “skorneg”
  • Breton: “Skorneg”
  • Bulgarian: “глетчер”
  • Bulgarian: “глетчери”
  • Bulgarian: “ледник”
  • Bulgarian: “Ледник”
  • Burmese: “ရေခဲမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “glacera”
  • Catalan: “Glacera”
  • Catalan: “glaceres”
  • Catalan: “glaciar”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەھۆڵبەند”
  • Chinese: “Peng-hô”
  • Chinese: “冰川”
  • Chinese: “冰河”
  • Chinese: “高山冰川”
  • Chuvash: “пăрлăх”
  • Chuvash: “Пăрлăх”
  • Cornish: “rewliv”
  • Cornish: “Rewliv”
  • Croatian: “glečer”
  • Croatian: “ledenjaci”
  • Croatian: “ledenjak”
  • Croatian: “Ledenjak”
  • Czech: “ledovce”
  • Czech: “ledovec”
  • Czech: “Ledovec”
  • Danish: “bræ”
  • Danish: “gletcher”
  • Danish: “gletscher”
  • Danish: “gletsjer”
  • Danish: “Gletsjer”
  • Danish: “isbræ”
  • Danish: “jøkel”
  • Dutch: “glaciatie”
  • Dutch: “gletscher”
  • Dutch: “gletschers”
  • Dutch: “gletsjer”
  • Dutch: “Gletsjer”
  • Dutch: “gletsjers”
  • Eastern Mari: “ийнальык”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ийнальык”
  • Erzya: “эймар”
  • Erzya: “Эймар”
  • Esperanto: “glaĉero”
  • Esperanto: “Glaĉero”
  • Esperanto: “glaciaro”
  • Esperanto: “glaciejo”
  • Esperanto: “glacirivero”
  • Estonian: “jääliustik”
  • Estonian: “jääliustikud”
  • Estonian: “liustik”
  • Estonian: “Liustik”
  • Estonian: “liustikud”
  • Finnish: “jäätikkö”
  • Finnish: “Jäätikkö”
  • Finnish: “mannerjää”
  • French: “glacier”
  • French: “Glacier”
  • French: “langue glaciaire”
  • French: “langue glacière”
  • Galician: “glaciar”
  • Galician: “Glaciar”
  • Galician: “Xeleira”
  • Gan Chinese: “Glacier”
  • Gan Chinese: “冰川”
  • Gan Chinese: “冰河”
  • Georgian: “მყინვარი”
  • German: “Gletscher”
  • German: “Gletschereis”
  • German: “Vergletscherung”
  • Greek: “αλπικός παγετώνας”
  • Greek: “παγετώνας”
  • Greek: “Παγετώνας”
  • Guarani: “ro’yrupa”
  • Guarani: “Ro’yrupa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “glasyé”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Glasyé”
  • Haitian: “glasye kontinantal”
  • Haitian: “glasye”
  • Haitian: “Glasye”
  • Hausa: “Gileshiya (Tsaunin kankara)”
  • Hausa: “Gileshiya”
  • Hebrew: “קרחון יבשתי”
  • Hebrew: “קרחון”
  • Hindi: “ग्लेशियर”
  • Hindi: “हिमनद”
  • Hindi: “हिमनदी”
  • Hindi: “हिमानियाँ”
  • Hindi: “हिमानियों”
  • Hindi: “हिमानी”
  • Hungarian: “firn”
  • Hungarian: “gleccser”
  • Hungarian: “Gleccser”
  • Icelandic: “jökull”
  • Icelandic: “Jökull”
  • Icelandic: “jökulsprunga”
  • Ido: “glaciero”
  • Ido: “Glaciero”
  • Inari Sami: “jieŋâdâh”
  • Indonesian: “glasier”
  • Indonesian: “gletser”
  • Indonesian: “Gletser”
  • Interlingua: “glaciero”
  • Interlingua: “Glaciero”
  • Irish: “oighearshruth”
  • Irish: “Oighearshruth”
  • Italian: “ghiacciai”
  • Italian: “ghiacciaio”
  • Italian: “Ghiacciaio”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “gliesia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Gliesia”
  • Japanese: “グレイシャー”
  • Japanese: “大陸氷河”
  • Japanese: “山岳氷河”
  • Japanese: “氷河”
  • Javanese: “Gletser”
  • Javanese: “glètser”
  • Javanese: “Glètser”
  • Kabiyè: “Ɖomba ɛwaɣ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿಮನದಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Muzlıq”
  • Kashmiri: “شینہٕ ترٛل”
  • Kashubian: “lodofôłt”
  • Kashubian: “Lodofôłt”
  • Kazakh: “мұздық”
  • Kazakh: “Мұздық”
  • Kirghiz: “мөңгү”
  • Kirghiz: “Мөңгү”
  • Korean: “빙하”
  • Ladin: “dlaciá”
  • Ladin: “Dlaciá”
  • Latgalian: “laduojs”
  • Latgalian: “Laduojs”
  • Latin: “Glaciarium”
  • Latin: “Glacies perpetua”
  • Latvian: “ledāji”
  • Latvian: “ledājs”
  • Latvian: “Ledājs”
  • Limburgan: “Gletsjer”
  • Lithuanian: “ledynai”
  • Lithuanian: “ledynas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ledynas”
  • Lombard: “vedretta”
  • Lombard: “Vedretta”
  • Low German: “Gletscher”
  • Low German: “gletsjer”
  • Low German: “Gletsjer”
  • Lule Sami: “jiehkke”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gletscher”
  • Macedonian: “глечер”
  • Macedonian: “ледник”
  • Macedonian: “Ледник”
  • Maithili: “हिमनदी”
  • Malagasy: “Tahirin-dranomandry”
  • Malay: “glasier”
  • Malay: “Glasier”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്ലേഷ്യർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഹിമാനി”
  • Manx: “awin rioee”
  • Manx: “Awin rioee”
  • Manx: “rio-stroo”
  • Marathi: “हिमनदी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “peng-hô”
  • Mingrelian: “უგურყელი”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯიშთი”
  • Mongolian: “мөсөн гол”
  • Mongolian: “Мөсөн гол”
  • Nepali: “हिमनदी”
  • Newari: “च्वापुखुसि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Istong”
  • Northern Sami: “jiehkki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “botnbre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “bre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “isbre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “jøkel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “platåbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “botnbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “bræde”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “bre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “brede”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “dalbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “forlandsbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “isbræ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “isbræde”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “isbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “isbrear”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “isbrede”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “iskappe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “jøkel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “jøkul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “platåbre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “spitsbergenbre”
  • Norwegian: “Isbre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “glacèir”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “glacèr”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “glacier”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “glacièr”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glacièr”
  • Oriya: “ହିମବାହ”
  • Ossetian: “цъити”
  • Ossetian: “Цъити”
  • Ossetian: “цъититæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਲੇਸ਼ੀਅਰ”
  • Persian: “برف رود”
  • Persian: “یخچال طبیعی”
  • Persian: “یخچال”
  • Persian: “یخچال‌های طبیعی”
  • Persian: “یخ‌رود”
  • Persian: “یخرود”
  • Polish: “lodowce”
  • Polish: “lodowiec”
  • Polish: “Lodowiec”
  • Portuguese: “geleira”
  • Portuguese: “Geleira”
  • Portuguese: “geleiras”
  • Portuguese: “glacial”
  • Portuguese: “glaciar de descarga”
  • Portuguese: “glaciar de maré”
  • Portuguese: “glaciares”
  • Pushto: “کنګل”
  • Quechua: “glaciar”
  • Quechua: “glacier”
  • Quechua: “hatun chullunku”
  • Quechua: “Hatun chullunku”
  • Quechua: “Illima”
  • Quechua: “rit’i pampa”
  • Quechua: “rit’ipampa”
  • Quechua: “ritipampa”
  • Quechua: “urqu chullunku pampa”
  • Quechua: “urqu chullunku”
  • Quechua: “wallallu”
  • Romanian: “ghețar”
  • Romanian: “Ghețar”
  • Romanian: “ghetari”
  • Romanian: “glaciar”
  • Romansh: “glatscher”
  • Romansh: “Glatscher”
  • Romansh: “vadretg”
  • Romansh: “vardret”
  • Russian: “глетчер”
  • Russian: “ледник”
  • Russian: “Ледник”
  • Russian: “ледники”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Glacier”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Gletscher”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Glitsker”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Glitskere”
  • Scots: “glacier”
  • Scots: “Glacier”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “eigh-shruth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eigh-shruth”
  • Serbian: “глечер”
  • Serbian: “ледењак”
  • Serbian: “ледник”
  • Serbian: “Ледник”
  • Serbian: “ледници”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “glečer”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “ledenjak”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ledenjak”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “глечер”
  • Sicilian: “ghiacciaiu”
  • Sicilian: “Ghiacciaiu”
  • Sicilian: “ghiacciaju”
  • Sicilian: “ghiacciaru”
  • Sicilian: “ghiazzaru”
  • Sicilian: “iazzaru”
  • Sicilian: “jazzaru”
  • Sindhi: “برفالو”
  • Slovak: “Glečer”
  • Slovak: “Ľadovec”
  • Slovenian: “ledenik”
  • Slovenian: “Ledenik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوزلاق”
  • Southern Sami: “dielhtie”
  • Spanish: “glacial”
  • Spanish: “glaciales”
  • Spanish: “glaciar”
  • Spanish: “Glaciar”
  • Spanish: “glaciares”
  • Spanish: “Glaciares”
  • Swahili: “barafuto”
  • Swahili: “Barafuto”
  • Swahili: “mto wa barafu”
  • Swedish: “glaciär”
  • Swedish: “Glaciär”
  • Swedish: “glaciärer”
  • Swedish: “glaciation”
  • Swedish: “jökel”
  • Swedish: “jökul”
  • Swedish: “jökull”
  • Swiss German: “Gletscher”
  • Tagalog: “glacier”
  • Tagalog: “Glasyar”
  • Tajik: “пирях”
  • Tajik: “Пирях”
  • Tamil: “பனியாறு”
  • Tatar: “бозлык”
  • Tatar: “Бозлык”
  • Telugu: “హిమానీనదం”
  • Thai: “ธารน้ำแข็ง”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Gletscher”
  • Turkish: “buzul”
  • Turkish: “Buzul”
  • Turkish: “buzullar”
  • Turkish: “türkiyenin neotektoniği”
  • Turkmen: “buzluk”
  • Udmurt: “йӧ”
  • Udmurt: “йӧлюк”
  • Uighur: “مۇزلۇق”
  • Ukrainian: “глетчер”
  • Ukrainian: “льодовик”
  • Ukrainian: “Льодовик”
  • Ukrainian: “льодовики”
  • Upper Sorbian: “lodowc”
  • Urdu: “گلیشیئر”
  • Urdu: “گلیشیر”
  • Uzbek: “muzlik”
  • Uzbek: “Muzlik”
  • Uzbek: “muzliklar”
  • Venetian: “jasaro”
  • Venetian: “Jasaro”
  • Vietnamese: “băng hà”
  • Vietnamese: “sông băng”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông băng”
  • Vlaams: “Gletsjer”
  • Walloon: “glaecî”
  • Walloon: “Glaecî”
  • Waray (Philippines): “gleysyer”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gleysyer”
  • Welsh: “rhewlif”
  • Welsh: “Rhewlif”
  • Welsh: “rhewlifiad”
  • Western Frisian: “Gletsjer”
  • Western Panjabi: “گلیشیئر”
  • Western Panjabi: “گلیشیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “冰川”
  • Yakut: “булуус”
  • Yakut: “Булуус”
  • Yemba: “Leŋwɛ te ncʉ́ atāa”
  • Yiddish: “גלעטשער”
  • Yue Chinese: “冰川”
  • Yue Chinese: “冰河”
  • “ग्लेशियर”

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