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GLACIER "WINNEBACHFERNER"
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 glacier is situated east of Breiter Grieskogels (3287 m) in a sidevalley of the Ötztal valley. |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
47.1 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
11.05 E |
| Surface (km2): |
0.3 |
| Lenght (km): |
0.7 |
| Width (km): |
0.6 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
2680 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3030 |
| Orientation (°) |
310 |
| Slope (°) |
26 |
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EVENT: Date
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- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
About 1940 a glacier lake which was dammed up by the 1920-moraine broke out through debris and dead ice. No more information could be found. |
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Effects: |
unknown |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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KINZL, H.,, 1949 - Formenkundliche Beobachtungen im Vorfeld der Alpengletscher Veröff. d.Museums Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Bd.26/.Jg.1946, S.61-82. |
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