- Upsala Glacier as seen from the International Space Station, October 2009. Click here for photo notes. The Upsala Glacier is a large valley glacier on the eastern side...
- The Upsala Glacier is, together with the Perito Moreno Glacier , the most visited glacier in the region. The Upsala Glacier owes its name to the Swedish city.
- The Upsala Glacier is a large glacier that covers a compound valley, fed by several glaciers, in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina.
- The front of the Upsala glacier sheared off about a month or 2 ago, leaving about a 10KM traffic jam in that arm of the lake with all of its calved icebergs.
- Upsala is well known for its rapid retreat over recent decades and is commonly used as evidence of global warming. ... Trips that visit Upsala Glacier.
- Like the famous Perito Moreno, the Upsala is a glacier that is constantly advancing due to the enormous accumulation and weight of ice from the Andean fields.
- Many glaciers in the Patagonian Ice Field, including Upsala, have been retreating over the last 50 years owing to rising temperatures.
- Upsala Glacier is among seven glaciers feeding Lake Argentino, where boats dodge icebergs the size of small islands en route to the wall of ice.
- The Upsala Glacier isn’t known for its accessibility. Indeed, the only way for a close encounter with the glacier is by taking a boat across the Lago Argentino.
- Upsala is the third largest glacier in the icefield, and like most other glaciers in the region, it has experienced significant retreat over the past century.
