The longest and largest glacier in France is smaller than what glacier in the Alps?
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Mer de Glace The Mer de Glace is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and 200 m deep but, when all its tributary glaciers are taken into account, it can be regarded as the longest and largest glacier in France, and the second longest in the Alps after the Aletsch Glacier.
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Aletsch Glacier The Aletsch Glacier (German: "Aletschgletscher" ) or Great Aletsch Glacier ("Grosser Aletschgletscher ") is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km (2014), has about a volume of 15.4 km3 (2011), and covers about 81.7 km2 (2011) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of four smaller glaciers converging at Concordia Place, where its thickness was measured by the ETH to be still near 1 km . It then continues towards the Rhône valley before giving birth to the Massa. The Aletsch Glacier is – like most glaciers on this world – a retreating glacier. As of 2016, since 1980 it lost 1.3 km of its length, since 1870 3.2 km , and lost also more than 300 m of its thickness.
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Argentière Hut The Argentière Hut (French: "Refuge d'Argentière") is a refuge in the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps. Built in 1974 by the CAF, it is located above the north bank of the Argentière Glacier in France at an altitude of 2,691 meters above sea level.
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Roc de Chère National Nature Reserve The Roc de Chère National Nature Reserve is a major ecologic site in southeastern France. A protected nature reserve since 1977, it covers a small area of 69 ha . It is located near the commune of Talloires, on the eastern bank of Lake Annecy at an elevation of 448 m . The Roc de Chère is a small mountain, culminating at a modest 651 m , which was formed by a quaternary glacier from the south.
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Aiguille du Midi The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m / 12,605 ft) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps. It is a popular tourist destination and can be directly accessed by cable car from Chamonix that takes visitors close to Mont Blanc.
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Bara Shigri Glacier Bara Shigri is the largest glacier located in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, Bara-Sigri glacier which is the second longest glacier in Himalaya after Gangotri, both are around 30 km long. The glacier is located in the Chandra Valley of Lahaul. The glacier feeds the Chenab River.
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List of tunnels in the Alps There are a large number of tunnels in the Alps of Central Europe. They have the advantage of provide shorter routes and faster journey times by avoiding narrow, winding routes over mountain passes which may well be affected by winter conditions. This list is intended to give an overview of the main Alpine tunnels. As the list is "country" oriented, cross-border tunnels are listed twice (e.g. the Mont Blanc tunnel is listed under France and under Italy.)
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Vallée Verte The "Vallée Verte" (literally: Green Valley) is a valley in the Chablais Alps, about 15 kilometres south of Thonon-les-Bains in the Haute-Savoie area of France. The river Menoge flows through it. It has as south-southwest orientation and a length of about 20 kilometres. Many of its inhabitants work near Geneva or Annemasse. Tourism is important to the local economy, though once important agriculture and forestry has declined since the end of the 20th century.
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Massa (river) The Massa is a seven kilometre long river in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is mainly fed by the melt-water from the Aletsch Glacier. It passes through the "Massa Gorge" and flows into the Stausee Gibidum reservoir and onwards to its confluence with the Rhone.
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Monacobreen Monacobreen is a glacier in Haakon VII Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The glacier debouches into Liefdefjorden. Former names of the glacier include "Glacier de Monaco" and "Liefde Bay-bræ".
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Turtmann Glacier The Turtmann Glacier (German: "Turtmanngletscher" ) is a 5 km long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of 5.91 km. The glacier is located north of Bishorn and Weisshorn.
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Dora Riparia The Dora Riparia (] ; Latin: "Duria minor" French: "Doire Ripaire" Piedmontese: "Dòira Rivaira" ) is an alpine river, a left-hand tributary of the Po. It is 125 km long, with a 1231 km2 drainage basin. It originates in the Cottian Alps, close to the Col de Montgenèvre in France, where it is called the Piccola Dora. Its name becomes the Dora Riparia after the confluence with the Ripa in the Argentera Valley and the Thuras de Bousson close to Cesana.
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Adishi Glacier Adishi Glacier (Georgian: ადიშის მყინვარი ) is a valley glacier located in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in the Svaneti Region of Georgia. The glacier lies on the southern slopes of the Caucasus. The length of the Adishi Glacier is 9 km and its surface area is 12.9 km2 . The tongue of the glacier descends down to 2298 m above sea level. The glacier feeds off of the runoff and ice flows from the adjacent glaciers that are located on the southern slopes of Tetnuldi, Gistola and Lakutsia. The Adishi Glacier is the source of the river Adishischala. The glacier takes its name from the nearby village Adishi.
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Rhône The Rhône ( ; French: "Le Rhône" ] ; German: "Rhone" ] ; Walliser German: "Rotten" ; Italian: "Rodano" ] ; Arpitan: "Rôno" ] ; Occitan: "Ròse" ] ) is one of the major rivers of Europe and has twice the average discharge of the Loire (which is the longest French river), rising in the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps at the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France. At Arles, near its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, the river divides into two branches, known as the Great Rhône (French: "Le Grand Rhône") and the Little Rhône ("Le Petit Rhône"). The resulting delta constitutes the Camargue region.
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Dauphiné Alps The Dauphiné Alps (French: "Alpes du Dauphiné" ) are a group of mountain ranges in southeastern France, west of the main chain of the Alps. Mountain ranges within the Dauphiné Alps include the Massif des Écrins (in the Parc national des Écrins), Belledonne, the Taillefer range and the mountains of Matheysine.
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Étang de Thau Étang de Thau (] ; Occitan: "Estanh de Taur" ) or Bassin de Thau is the largest of a string of lagoons ("étangs") that stretch along the French coast from the Rhône River to the foothills of the Pyrenees and the border to Spain in the Languedoc-Roussillon. Although it has a high salinity, it is considered the second largest lake in France.
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Verdon (river) The Verdon is a 166 km long river] in south-eastern France, left tributary of the Durance. Its source is at an elevation of 2819 m , in the south-western Alps (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), between the col d'Allos and the Trois Eveches mountain, south of Barcelonnette. It flows south-west through the following "départements" and towns:
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Cottian Alps The Cottian Alps ( ; French: "Alpes Cottiennes" ] ; Italian: "Alpi Cozie" ] ); are a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps. They form the border between France (Hautes-Alpes and Savoie) and Italy (Piedmont). The Fréjus Road Tunnel and Fréjus Rail Tunnel between Modane and Susa are important transportation arteries between France (Lyon, Grenoble) and Italy (Turin).
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Mont Blanc Mont Blanc (] ) or Monte Bianco ] , both meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Europe west of Russia's Caucasus peaks.
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Col de Cou The Col de Cou (also spelled "Col de Coux") (1,921 m) is a high mountain pass of the Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and France. It connects Champéry in the Swiss canton of Valais to Morzine in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is the lowest border crossing between the Pas de Morgins and the Dents du Midi.
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Vatnajökull Vatnajökull (] ), also known as the Water Glacier in English, is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and one of the largest in area in Europe. It is the second largest glacier in area after Austfonna on Svalbard in Norway but, nevertheless, larger by volume. It is located in the south-east of the island, covering more than 8 percent of the country.
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Lang Glacier The Lang Glacier (German: "Langgletscher" ) is a 6.6 km long glacier (2005) situated in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of 10.1 km2 .