Earth:Severny Island ice cap

Short description: Russian Glacier

Severny Island ice cap
Location	Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russian Federation
Coordinates
Area	20,500 km2 (7,920 sq mi)
Length	400 km (250 mi)
Width	50 km (30 mi)

Severny Island ice cap is an ice cap on Severny Island, northern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia . It covers 40% of Severny Island (which is the 30th largest island in the world) at total area of approximately 20,500 km² (7,900 sq mi) which, if Novaya Zemlya is considered within Europe, makes it the largest glacier by area in Europe ahead of Vatnajökull at 8,100 km² (3,100 sq mi), and Austfonna at 7,800 km² (3,000 sq mi).

Glaciers

A number of glaciers 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.

View of Inostrantsev Glacier (). West coast.

NASA picture of Rozhdestvensky (left), Novopashenny (middle) and Roze glaciers of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group. East coast.

West coast

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the Barents Sea.

• Anna Glacier ()
• Anuchin Glacier ()
• Arkhangel Bay Glacier ()
• Brounov Glacier ()
• Borzov Glacier ()
• Bull Glacier ()
• Bunge Glacier ()
• Chayev Glacier ()
• Chernishev Glacier ()
• Glazov Glacier ()
• Inostrantsev Glacier ()
• Karbasnikov Glacier ()
• Krayniy Glacier ()
• Lakrua Glacier ()
• Mack Glacier ()
• Nizkiy Glacier ()
• Pavlov Glacier ()
• Petersen Glacier ()
• Popov Glacier ()
• Rikachev Glacier ()
• Severnyy Glacier ()
• Shirokiy Glacier ()
• Shokalsky Glacier ()
• Taisiya Glacier ()
• Velken Glacier ()
• Vera Glacier ()
• Vize Glacier ()
• Voyekov Glacier ()
• Yuzhnyy Glacier ()

East coast

The following glaciers have their terminus on the coast of the Kara Sea.

• Goluboy Glacier ()
• Kropotkin Glacier ()
• Moschnyy Glacier ()
• Nansen Glacier ()
• Polisadov Glacier ()
• Serp i Molot Glacier ()
• Vitte Glacier ()
• Nordenskiöld Glacier (), group of four glaciers:
  • Vershinsky Glacier ()
  • Novopashenny Glacier (), also known as
  • Rozhdestvensky Glacier ()
  • Roze Glacier ()

Other glaciers

• Lednikovoye Glaciers with their terminus in Lednikovoye Lake

Nunataks

Gora Severny Nunatak is a nunatak located in the northern section of the long ice cap not far from the western coast of the island. Further to the northeast there is another nunatak between the two outlets of the Bunge Glacier.

See also

• List of glaciers in Europe
• List of glaciers in Russia
• List of fjords of Russia