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GLACIER "VERNAGTFERNER"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
Austria |
| Region: |
Tyrol |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Ötztaler Alps |
| Municipality: |
Ötz |
| Municipality code: |
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| Location: |
The vernagt glacier is located in the Ötztaler Alps in the Rofen valley west of Wildspitze (3768 m) |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
46.87 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
10.82 E |
| Surface (km2): |
9.6 |
| Lenght (km): |
3.3 |
| Width (km): |
4 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
2717 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3628 |
| Orientation (°) |
150 |
| Slope (°) |
10 |
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EVENT: Date
13/7/1848
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
The Vernagt glacier is one of the biggest glaciers in Austria. It is the best documented glacier of Austria because of ist several catastrophic glacierlake outbursts in the past. In the periods around 1600, 1680, 1770 and 1845/48 the glacier was surging several times and reached the Rofen valley were it dammed up the Rofen river.
The last big outburst happened on 13th of June 1848 |
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Effects: |
wide devastation in the whole Ötztal valley |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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HESS, H, 1920 - Der Stausee des Vernagtferners im Jahr 1848 Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde, XI.Bd. (1918-1920), S.28-33. |
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EVENT: Date
28/5/1847
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
The Vernagt glacier is one of the biggest glaciers in Austria. It is the best documented glacier of Austria because of ist several catastrophic glacierlake outbursts in the past. In the periods around 1600, 1680, 1770 and 1845/48 the glacier was surging several times and reached the Rofen valley were it dammed up the Rofen river.
During the glacier advance of 1850 the tongue reached the Rofen valley in June 1845 and the lake started to grow again. Several smaller outburts followed. Up to 28th of May 1847 the lake has reached a size of 1210*260 meters (depth of 85 meters) and then broke out. |
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Effects: |
devastation in the whole Ötztal valley. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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HESS, H, 1920 - Der Stausee des Vernagtferners im Jahr 1848 Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde, XI.Bd. (1918-1920), S.28-33. |
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EVENT: Date
16/7/1678
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
The Vernagt glacier is one of the biggest glaciers in Austria. It is the best documented glacier of Austria because of ist several catastrophic glacierlake outbursts in the past. In the periods around 1600, 1680, 1770 and 1845/48 the glacier was surging several times and reached the Rofen valley were it dammed up the Rofen river.
In 1678 two outbursts happened with catastrophic damages from 16th to 17th of July. |
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Effects: |
wide devastation in the Ötztal valley |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
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Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Mougin, M.P., 1922 - Avalanches, débâcles, érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, p.163-169 |
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NICOLUSSI, K, 1990 - Bilddokumente zur Geschichte des Vernagtferners im 17.Jahrhundert. Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, Bd. 26 (1990), Heft 2, S. 97-119. |
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PATZELT, G., NICOLUSSI K, 1991 - Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Vernagtferners und seines Eissees Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie |
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R.T.M Annecy, 0 - Archives du service R.T.M. d'Annecy |
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RICHTER, E, 1892 - Urkunden über die Ausbrüche des Vernagt- und Gurglergletschers im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert Forschungen zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde, Bd. VI, S.345-440. |
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Vivian, R., 1975 - Les glaciers des Alpes occidentales Thèse d'état, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, p.351 |
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EVENT: Date
20/7/1600
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
The Vernagt glacier is one of the biggest glaciers in Austria. It is the best documented glacier of Austria because of ist several catastrophic glacierlake outbursts in the past. In the periods around 1600, 1680, 1770 and 1845/48 the glacier was surging several times and reached the Rofen valley were it dammed up the Rofen river.
In the first period in 1599 and 1600 the first ice damm built up an broke through on 20th of July 1600. |
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Effects: |
wide devastation in the Ötztal valley |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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NICOLUSSI, K, 1990 - Bilddokumente zur Geschichte des Vernagtferners im 17.Jahrhundert Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, Bd. 26 (1990), Heft 2, S. 97-119. |
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PATZELT, G., NICOLUSSI K, 1991 - Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Vernagtferners und seines Eissees Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie. |
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RICHTER, E, 1892 - Urkunden über die Ausbrüche des Vernagt- und Gurglergletschers im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert Forschungen zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde, Bd. VI, S.345-440. |
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