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25 largest glaciers in Europe by area

25 glaciers, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The glaciers

  1. 1Austfonna8,492 km²
  2. 2Vatnajökull7,700 km²
  3. 3Olav V Land4,150 km²
  4. 4Vestfonna2,500 km²
  5. 5Siorfonna Glacier2,350 km²
  6. 6Edgeøyjøkulen1,365 km²
  7. 7Hinlopenbreen1,250 km²
  8. 8Åsgardfonna1,230 km²
  9. 9Negribreen1,180 km²
  10. 10Bråsvellbreen1,160 km²
  11. 11Etonbreen1,070 km²
  12. 12Langjökull953 km²
  13. 13Hofsjökull925 km²
  14. 14Leighbreen925 km²
  15. 15Lomonosovfonna800 km²
  16. 16Kronebreen690 km²
  17. 17Mýrdalsjökull596 km²
  18. 18Jostedal Glacier550 km²
  19. 19Monacobreen408 km²
  20. 20Breiðamerkurjökull362 km²
  21. 21Svartisen208 km²
  22. 22Folgefonna207 km²
  23. 23Drangajökull160 km²
  24. 24Aletsch Glacier118 km²
  25. 25Blåmannsisen88 km²

Area in km²: Wikidata’s (P2046), else measured on the OpenStreetMap outline where it fits; the Antarctic ice sheet’s from NSIDC. A glacier of unknown area is left out. Glaciers, ice caps, ice fields, ice sheets and ice shelves from Wikidata with articles in 10 or more Wikipedia editions, or 300 km² or larger, or 40 km or longer; a glacier that is also a mountain or volcano stays with the peaks. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 25 largest glaciers in Europe by area, 25 glaciers: each one marked on the globe

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