🥶 Ice Caps of the World

These are notable ice caps — rounded domes of glacier ice covering less than fifty thousand square kilometres, from the surviving caps of Iceland, Svalbard and the Canadian Arctic to the Andean and African mountain ice, each a small remnant of the great ice sheets and a sensitive gauge of a warming world. Each profile shows where the cap sits, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia.

24 ice caps from 9 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any ice cap for its full profile.

Americas (7) Antarctica (2) Europe (14)

Americas (7 ice caps)

Antarctica (2 ice caps)

Europe (14 ice caps)

Coordinates are approximate locations. Descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached on our server. Data sourced from Wikidata. Related: Mountains · Lakes · Islands · World Heritage.