Arrow Glacier is located near the summit of
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro () is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world: above sea level and ab ...
in
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...
, on the west slope of the peak and is a small remnant of an
icecap
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets.
Description
Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features ...
which once crowned the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. The glacier is situated at an elevation of between .
Arrow Glacier is adjacent to a climbing route known as the
Western Breach
As its name suggests, the Western Breach is a gap, formed by lava flow,
on the western outer rim of Mount Kilimanjaro's main summit, Kibo.
The Western Breach offers one of the shortest
climbing routes
A climbing route is a path by which a c ...
/Arrow Glacier Route or more commonly, the Lemosho Route.
Arrow Glacier is a recently named glacial remnant that may not even exist as of 2011. It was what remained of an earlier glacier known as the Little Barranco Glacier.
See also
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Retreat of glaciers since 1850
The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and, in the longer term, the level of the oceans. Deglaciation occu ...
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List of glaciers in Africa
Africa, specifically East Africa, has contained glacial regions, possibly as far back as the last glacial maximum 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Seasonal snow does exist on the highest peaks of East Africa as well as in the Drakensberg Range of Sout ...
References
Glaciers of Tanzania
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