The Morteratsch Glacier (Romansh: Vadret da Morteratsch) is the largest glacier by area in the Bernina Range of the Bündner Alps in Switzerland.[citation...
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Morteratsch refers to several locations in the Graubünden canton of Switzerland: Morteratsch Glacier Piz Morteratsch, a mountain (3751 m) Val Morteratsch...
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Haut Glacier d'Arolla Bas Glacier d'Arolla Hufi Glacier Kander Glacier Lang Glacier Lower Grindelwald Glacier Mont Miné Glacier Morteratsch Glacier Oberaletsch...
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Vorab Basodino Gries Paradies Morteratsch Silvretta Forno Albigna This is a non-exhaustive list of the major glaciers in Switzerland. It contains their...
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Eastern Alps, including the Piz Bernina, and the Pers Glacier, a tributary of the Morteratsch Glacier. The mountain can be reached by cable car from Val...
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Piz Morteratsch (3,751 m) is a mountain in the Bernina Range in Switzerland. It is bordered on the east by the Morteratsch Glacier and on the south-west...
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region. Piz Bernina is entirely surrounded by glaciers, of which the largest is the Morteratsch Glacier. The mountain was named after the Bernina Pass...
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Bernina Range (section Glaciers)
Main glaciers : Morteratsch Glacier Roseg Glacier Pers Glacier Tschierva Glacier Palü Glacier Scerscen Superiore Glacier Scerscen Inferiore Glacier Fellaria...
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It is located on the Bernina line of the Rhaetian Railway. The Morteratsch Glacier lies some 3 km (1.9 mi) to the south of the station and can be reached...
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period. The Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland has had one of the longest periods of scientific study with yearly measurements of the glacier's length commencing...
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Nearby glaciers include the Morteratsch Glacier and the Roseg Glacier. The Morteratsch has a ski lift and a long run down the glacier and the glacier is an...
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technology; using drones to capture live avalanches and disintegrating glaciers. Each episode, except for the last, concludes with a segment entitled Out...
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remaining 34 are within 20 kilometres (12 mi) of the country's border. The glaciers of the Swiss Alps cover an area of 1,220 square kilometres (470 sq mi)...
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Alps in Switzerland. It lies at the foot of Piz Morteratsch and Piz Bernina, above the Morteratsch Glacier. 46°24′55″N 9°55′30″E / 46.41528°N 9.92500°E...
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is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking the Morteratsch Glacier in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It lies north of Diavolezza, from...
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ridge that separate the Val Roseg (west) from the valley of the Morteratsch Glacier (east). Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col...
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Piz Tschierva and Piz Morteratsch at the end of Val Roseg. The hut lies at 2,584 metres above sea level near the Tschierva Glacier and can be accessed from...
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through the valley to the Bernina Pass over the Morteratsch station (1,896 m [6,220 ft]), where the glacier and the highest summit of the Eastern Alps, Piz...
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crossing the Berninabach, it finally reaches Morteratsch station, about 2 km (1.2 mi) below the Morteratsch Glacier. Past the other end of the station is the...
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the north by the Morteratsch Glacier, to the west by the Upper Scerscen Glacier, and to the south and east by the Fellaria Glacier. It is separated from...
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the valley to the Bernina Pass over the Morteratsch station (1,896 m [6,220 ft]) (with the Morteratsch Glacier and Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the...
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the valley of Morteratsch, north of Piz Bernina. Its summit is located within the valley of Roseg. Piz Tschierva lies between two glaciers named Vadret...
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carried out in the area of the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland during the summer of 2010. During the trials on the glacier, the following penetration tests...
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The peak is bounded to the north by the Morteratsch Glacier and to the south by the Upper Scerscen Glacier. To its immediate north-west lies the Fuorcla...
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while glacier and firn melt has decreased the height of both peaks and key cols, sometimes quite dramatically. For example, in 1930, glacier-capped Cima...
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Stone split by frost weathering on the mountain path to the tongue of the Morteratsch glacier....
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Finally, many height indications on these maps may be not up-to-date, while glacier and firn melt has decreased the height of both peaks and key cols, quite...
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Monte Pelmo, Piz Calderas, Uia di Ciamarella Dom, Eiger, Nadelhorn, Piz Morteratsch, Wildstrubel (1858) Aletschhorn, Bietschhorn, Grand Combin, Grivola,...
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New Zealand Pointe de Charbonnel 3,752 12,310 Graian Alps, France Piz Morteratsch 3,751 12,306 Bernina Range, Switzerland Sawtooth Mountain 3,750 12,303...
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Palmas (1934) Arucas, Church of the Southwest (1934) Mostar (1936) Morteratsch glacier (1939) The Catastrophic Mitholz Explosion (1949) Der versteinerte...
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