Topographic control over recent glacier changes in southern Lyngen Peninsula, North Norway

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Gellatly, A. F., Whalley, W. B. & Gordon, J. E. 1986. Topographic control over recent glacier changes in southern Lyngen Peninsula, North Norway. Norsk geogr. Tidsskr. Vol. 40, 211–218. Oslo. ISSN 0029-1951. Plateau ice-caps and valley glaciers of the southern Lyngen Peninsula are topographically constrained and related. Active ice avalanching from off the summit ice masses nourish other glaciers over 1000 m below. A reduction in this activity is accompanied by rapid downwasting and retreat of valley glaciers. In 1898 several of the glaciers were photographed and this record is compared with recent examination of the ice margins. Rapid downwasting and recession of valley glaciers is equated with extensive wastage of ice-fields on the low plateau summits whilst little change is recorded in the appearance of the high plateau ice-caps since the turn of the century.