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GLACIER "FLIRSCHER FERNER"
Risk type: ice avalanches

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Type:  Cirque glacier
Country:  Austria
Region:  Tyrol
Massif/Ice Cap:  Verwall mountains
Municipality:  Flirsch
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Location:  East of the mountain Hoher Riffler (3168 m) above the Stanzer valley
 
Latitude (°, cent):  47.12 N
Longitude (°, cent):  10.38 E
Surface (km2):  0.344
Lenght (km):  1
Width (km):  0.6
Min. altitude (m):  2630
Max. altitude (m):  3040
Orientation (°)  120
Slope (°)  16

EVENT:  Date  9/2/1982 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  500.000 m³ of ice came down in February 1982 and swaped over a rocky step where the smaller ice avalanches are used to stop. The ice front where the ice broke down had a length of 200 meters and was 80 meters high.
Effects:  350 m³ of wood has been destroyed by the ice and air pressure. Moreover a building site of the road authority and some machines have been destroyed. The avalanche stoped only a few meters in front of a railway track which was damaged slightly.
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 

M.Legland, 1998 - témoignage recueilli en mai 1998
Mougin, M.P, 1922 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, p.169
no name, 1982 - Vor dem Gleis stoppte Gletscherlawine Tiroler Tageszeitung vom 15.2.1982, page 3
Vivian, R., 1975 - Les glaciers des Alpes occidentales Thèse d'état, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, p.349