Africa (foreground) as it appeared in August 2014. Behind the glacier are snowfields and the Northern Icefield. Africa, specifically
East Africa, has contained
glacial regions, possibly as far back as the
last glacier maximum 10 to 15 thousand years ago. Seasonal snow does exist on the highest peaks of East Africa as well as in the
Drakensberg Range of South Africa, the
Stormberg Mountains, and the
Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Currently, the only remaining glaciers on the continent exist on
Mount Kilimanjaro,
Mount Kenya, and the
Rwenzori.
Antarctica in Antarctica There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include
ice sheets,
ice caps or
ice fields, such as the
Antarctic ice sheet, but includes
glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. The lists include
outlet glaciers,
valley glaciers,
cirque glaciers,
tidewater glaciers and
ice streams. Ice streams are a type of glacier For the purposes of this list, Antarctica is defined as any latitude further south than 60° (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty).
Asia •
List of glaciers in Bhutan •
List of glaciers in India •
List of glaciers in Nepal •
List of glaciers in Pakistan Europe The majority of Europe's glaciers are found in the
Alps,
Caucasus and the
Scandinavian Mountains (mostly Norway) as well as in Iceland. Iceland has the largest glacier in Europe,
Vatnajökull Glacier, that covers between 8,100 and 8,300 km2 in area and 3,100 km3 in volume. Norway alone has more than 2500 glaciers (including very small ones) covering an estimated 1% of mainland Norway's surface area. Several of mainland Europe's biggest glaciers are found here including;
Jostedalsbreen (the largest in mainland Europe at 487 km2),
Vestre Svartisen (221 km2),
Søndre Folgefonna (168 km2) and
Østre Svartisen (148 km2). The two Svartisen glaciers used to be one connected entity during the Little Ice Age but has since separated. •
List of glaciers in Iceland •
List of glaciers in Norway •
List of glaciers in Svalbard •
List of glaciers in Russia •
List of glaciers in Switzerland •
Southernmost glacial mass in Europe North America , an active glacier in Alaska There are a number of glaciers existing in North America, currently or in recent centuries. In the United States, these
glaciers are located in nine states, all in the
Rocky Mountains or further west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the
Lilliput Glacier in
Tulare County, east of the
Central Valley of California.
Mexico has about two dozen glaciers, all of which are located on
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl),
Popocatépetl and
Iztaccíhuatl, the three tallest mountains in the country. •
List of glaciers in Canada •
List of glaciers in Greenland •
List of glaciers in Mexico •
List of glaciers in the United States Oceania from 1850 to 2003 No glaciers remain on the
Australia mainland or
Tasmania. A few, like the
Heard Island glaciers are located in the territory of
Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern
Indian Ocean.
New Guinea has the
Puncak Jaya glacier.
New Zealand contains many
glaciers, mostly located near the Main Divide of the
Southern Alps in the
South Island. They are classed as mid-latitude mountain glaciers. There are eighteen small glaciers in the
North Island on
Mount Ruapehu. An inventory of South Island glaciers compiled in the 1980s indicated there were about 3,155 glaciers with an area of at least one hectare (2.5 acres). Approximately one sixth of these glaciers covered more than 10 hectares. These include: •
Fox Glacier •
Franz Josef Glacier •
Hooker Glacier •
Mueller Glacier •
Murchison Glacier •
Tasman Glacier •
Volta Glacier South America in the
Argentino Lake in
Santa Cruz,
Argentina. Glaciers in South America develop exclusively on the
Andes and are subject of the Andes various climatic regimes namely the
Tropical Andes,
Dry Andes and the
Wet Andes. Apart from this there is a wide range of latitudes on which glaciers develop from 5000 m in the
Altiplano mountains and
volcanoes to reaching sealevel as tidewater glaciers from
San Rafael Lagoon (45° S) and southwards. South America hosts two large
ice fields, the
Northern and
Southern Patagonian Ice Fields, of which the latter is the second largest contiguous body of glaciers in extrapolar regions. The
glaciers of Venezuela are located in the mountains of the
Sierra Nevada de Mérida. In 1910, maps made by the explorer
Alfredo Jahn showed the Sierra Nevada glaciers covering about . An
ice trade at that time saw ice men or hieleros transporting glacier ice by mule or on foot to
Mérida for sale, a six hour journey. Venezuela's glacier coverage shrank to about in 1952, and in 1985. The last remaining glacier, located on
Pico Humboldt, was estimated to cover in 2011. == Remote islands ==