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, photo = UntererGrindelwaldgletscher 01.jpg
, photo_caption = Above the glacier lake the scrawny leftovers of the former much larger Lower Grindelwald Glacier (dark, polluted part) directly below of the blue-white ''Ischmeer'' (lit.: Ice Sea) and the Fiescherhörner ( a.s.l., The Horns of Fiesch). On the very right a nameless peak () and the Ostegg (, lit.: Eastern Corner), two peaks of the Hörnli, the eastern extension of the Eiger. On the left and above the glacier lake the green ''Bänisegg'' behind which the glacier's connection to its source used to be. View from ''Bäregg'' (, lit.: Bear's Corner). This valley used to be filled with ice as thick as up to (picture from July 2009).
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The Lower Grindelwald Glacier yet has a major tributary, the Ischmeer (
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The Lower Grindelwald Glacier (german: Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher) is a Glacier in the Swiss
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Bernese Alps, situated to the south-east of Grindelwald. It starts below the Agassizhorn and the Strahlegghörner and is connected with the Finsteraar Glacier via the Finsteraarjoch ().
The Lower Grindelwald Glacier yet has a major tributary, the Ischmeer (Swiss German
Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...
for ''Ice Sea'', formerly known as ''Grindelwald-Fiescher Glacier'', german: Grindelwald-Fieschergletscher), which is the glacier overlooked by the Jungfrau Railway's Eismeer railway station.
The Lower Grindelwald Glacier was about long and covered an area of in 1973. The glacier has significantly shrunk since, having a length of just in 2015, with most of the retreat () happening since 2007.
In the middle of the 19th century it clearly reached into the valley of Grindelwald as far as ''Mettenberg'' at an altitude of , an eastern quarter of Grindelwald, near the conjunction of the Schwarze and Weisse LütschineNot to be mismatched with the Weisse Lütschine Weisse or Weiße is a surname which means "white" in German. It may refer to:
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in the Valley of Lauterbrunnen. In 1900 it still reached as far as ''Rote Fluh'' () and filled the entire valley of its current end, the glacier lake, with a thickness of about up to an altitude of , just below the current hiking path around the Bänisegg. Around 2000 it still reached into the gorge between the Hörnli (Eiger) and Mättenberg.
The Lower Grindelwald Glacier should not be confused with the Upper Grindelwald Glacier, situated to its north-east. The Grindelwald-Fiescher Glacier should not be confused with the like-named Fiescher Glacier, to the south of the Fiescherhorn.
See also
* List of glaciers in Switzerland *List of glaciers
A glacier ( ) or () is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries. Glaciers slowly deform ...
* Retreat of glaciers since 1850
*Swiss Alps
The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (german: Schweizer Alpen, french: Alpes suisses, it, Alpi svizzere, rm, Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss ...
References
External links
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