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GLACIER "SULZENAUFERNER"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Valley glacier |
| Country: |
Austria |
| Region: |
Tyrol |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Stubaier Alps |
| Municipality: |
Neustift/Stubaivalley |
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| Location: |
The glacier is situated north of Zuckerhütl (3507 m) in the Ruetzvalley in the Stubaier alpes. |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
46.98 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
11.15 E |
| Surface (km2): |
4.7 |
| Lenght (km): |
3.7 |
| Width (km): |
1.8 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
2480 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3500 |
| Orientation (°) |
20 |
| Slope (°) |
17 |
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EVENT: Date
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| Description |
At the right side of the glacier tongue there was situated a lake (Blaue Lacke) in the little iceage. In the year 1770 a huge piece of ice fell into the lake and the water flooded down the Sulzbach-river and the Ruzbach-river and caused serious damages in the valley. |
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Effects: |
unknown, probably at least agricultural damages |
| 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 Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. Bd. 26, Jg.1946, S.61-82 |
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unknown, 1825 - Das Thal Stubei und dessen Bewohner Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg, I.-II.Bd., S.166-246. |
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