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The Aar Glaciers are glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
s located at the sources of the Aar River in the Bernese Alps
Bernese Alps

The Bernese Alps are a group of mountain ranges in the western part of the Alps, in Switzerland. Although the name suggests they are in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are located in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Canton of Lucerne, Obwalden, Canton of Fribourg and Vaud....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. They are constituted by two disctinct glacier systems:






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The Aar Glaciers are glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
s located at the sources of the Aar River in the Bernese Alps
Bernese Alps

The Bernese Alps are a group of mountain ranges in the western part of the Alps, in Switzerland. Although the name suggests they are in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are located in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Canton of Lucerne, Obwalden, Canton of Fribourg and Vaud....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. They are constituted by two disctinct glacier systems:
  • Unteraar Glacier
    Unteraar Glacier

    The Unteraar Glacier is the largest of the two sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps. It emerges from the association of the Finsteraargletscher and the Lauteraargletscher and flows for about 6 km to the east down to the Grimselsee near the Grimsel Pass....
    : composed by the converging Lauteraar Glacier and Finsteraar Glacier, between the Lauteraarhorn
    Lauteraarhorn

    The Lauteraarhorn is a peak of the Aarmassif in the Bernese Alps Swiss Alps. It lies close to the Schreckhorn and the Finsteraarhorn . At the foot of the Lauteraarhorn lie the Lauteraar and the Finsteraar Glaciers, tributaries of the Unteraar Glacier....
    , Finsteraarhorn
    Finsteraarhorn

    The Finsteraarhorn is the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps Swiss Alps and the highest mountain in the canton of Canton of Berne, it is also the highest summit in the Alps whose range lies out the Main chain of the Alps....
     and Grimselsee
    Grimselsee

    Grimselsee or Lake Grimsel is an artificial lake near Grimsel pass in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. With a volume of 95 mio m?, it is larger than other hydroelectric reservoirs in the region: Oberaarsee, R?terichsbodensee and Gelmersee....
    .
  • Oberaar Glacier
    Oberaar Glacier

    The Oberaar Glacier is a 4 km long glacier situated in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Canton of Berne in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of 5.82 km?....
    : between Oberaarhorn
    Oberaarhorn

    The Oberaarhorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps Swiss Alps....
     and Oberaarsee
    Oberaarsee

    Oberaarsee is a reservoir in the Grimsel area, part of the municipality of Guttannen, Switzerland. The Oberaar glacier is located west of the lake....
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