Countries with Glaciers

Glacier? How is it pronounced?

Yeah it's like "glassier" (as in more glassy) but with a comically over-emphasized first syllable. As freestatebear said.

And how do you pronounce it?

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, there are two variant pronunciation for glacier: /ɡlasɪə/ (gl-ass-ier) and /ɡleɪsɪə/ (glay-sier).

Hardly anyone in the UK would pronounce it “glar-sier” or “glar-siay” unless they are extremely posh.

There are two alternatives which are far more common, namely: “glay-sier” or just “gla-sier”, the last one being the most common in my opinion.

It might even be a north south thing, relating to how words with the letter A are pronounced. Up north “glass” is pronounced as written, while down south people (myself included) flatten the A and say “glarse”. Same goes for “bath,” “castle” etc

Ironically the highest point in the country is on a slope of a mountain with its peak in Norway!

We don't have enough high ground that is cold the whole year around for glaciers to form. 1361 meters is quite low and that's just one place.

Though Indonesia has them

which equatorial country in the list are you talking about?

The high altitude drastically changes climate

Glaciers form where it is cold and wet enough that snow sticks around year after year. Even in the tropics, there are mountains high enough to support year-round snow. This is aided by high precipitation, tropical mountains tend to have lower snowlines than comparable mountains in dry subtropic locations due to heavy snowfall counteracting an increased rate of melting. Eg there are mountains on the edge of the Atacama desert in the subtropics with no snow to ~20,000 feet, while the New Guinea Highlands in the middle of rainforests can (for the time being) support small glaciers at ~16,000 feet.

The research took so long it melted?

It definitely needs more time, on tablet I can only type in 35 countries and then time is up... So even while knowing the answers I wont ne able to finish this quiz. (I might not have thought of Indoesia, but if that is the only one left..)

There are no glaciers in Liechtenstein but you're right, there are some in Uzbekistan in Ugam-Chatkal National Park and southeast of Samarkand:

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Andes I think.

Yes I thought that too. Presumably that makes Brazil the largest country with no glaciers. That's a really useless bit of interesting information.

Altitude is more of a predictor of glacier-having than latitude. A country with hot low-lying areas that has some tall mountains is more likely to have glaciers than a country with colder low-lying areas that has no tall mountains. The sky is always cold, bro.

Judging by the previous comment one got added

It's VERY mountainous. A few are high enough to be able to produce glaciers.

I think that this list could decrease pretty rapidly over the next few years. The glaciers of the Balkans and Japan are super marginal, and were not even identified as glaciers until recently so I imagine it wouldn't take much for them to melt.

Tropical glaciers are very susceptible to temperature shifts, given how stable temperatures are there compared to summer-winter shifts at the mid latitude, tropical glaciers tend to form at temperatures that hover just below freezing year-round and basically any warming would cause the air temperature at the glacier to rise above freezing and melt faster than it is laid down. The glaciers in Africa and Indonesia in particular are tropical and small, they are also likely to go away.

The Atlas Mountains aren’t tall or wet enough.