Severny Island ice cap is an
ice cap
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets.
Description
By definition, ice caps are not constrained by topogra ...
on
Severny Island, northern island of the
Novaya Zemlya
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archipelago
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in
Russia
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. It covers 40% of Severny Island (which is the 30th
largest island in the world) at total area of approximately which, if Novaya Zemlya is considered within Europe, makes it the largest glacier by area in
Europe
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ahead of
Vatnajökull
Vatnajökull ( Icelandic pronunciation: , literally "Glacier of Lakes"; sometimes translated as Vatna Glacier in English) is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island i ...
at , and
Austfonna
Austfonna is an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Covering an area of 7,800 km2, it is Europe's third-largest glacier by area and volume, after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, an ...
at .
Glaciers
A number of
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
s flow from the inner ice cap to Severny Island's coastline.
Mount Kruzenshtern, the highest point of Novaya Zemlya, rises on the western edge of the Severny Island ice cap, near the head of the
Glazov Glacier.
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West coast
The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea ( , also ; , ; ) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.World Wildlife Fund, 2008. It was known earlier among Russi ...
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Anna Glacier ()
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Anuchin Glacier ()
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Arkhangel Bay Glacier ()
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Brounov Glacier ()
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Borzov Glacier ()
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Bull Glacier ()
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Bunge Glacier ()
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Chayev Glacier ()
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Chernishev Glacier ()
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Glazov Glacier ()
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Inostrantsev Glacier ()
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Karbasnikov Glacier ()
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Krayniy Glacier ()
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Lakrua Glacier ()
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Mack Glacier ()
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Nizkiy Glacier ()
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Pavlov Glacier ()
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Petersen Glacier ()
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Popov Glacier ()
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Rikachev Glacier ()
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Severnyy Glacier ()
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Shirokiy Glacier ()
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Shokalsky Glacier ()
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Taisiya Glacier ()
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Velken Glacier ()
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Vera Glacier ()
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Vize Glacier ()
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Voyekov Glacier ()
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Yuzhnyy Glacier ()
East coast
The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all ...
.
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Goluboy Glacier ()
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Kropotkin Glacier ()
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Moschnyy Glacier ()
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Nansen Glacier ()
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Polisadov Glacier ()
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Serp i Molot Glacier ()
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Vitte Glacier ()
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Nordenskiöld Glacier (), group of four glaciers:
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Vershinsky Glacier ()
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Novopashenny Glacier (), also known as '
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Rozhdestvensky Glacier ()
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Roze Glacier ()
Other glaciers
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Lednikovoye Glaciers with their terminus in
Lednikovoye LakeAGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999-2016 retreat
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Nunataks
Gora Severny Nunatak is a nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...
located in the northern section of the long ice cap not far from the western coast of the island.[J. J. Zeeberg, ''Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic''. pp. 82-84]
See also
* List of glaciers in Europe
* List of glaciers in Russia
* List of fjords of Russia
References
Novaya Zemlya
Ice caps of Russia
Bodies of water of Arkhangelsk Oblast
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