List of glaciers in Africa


Africa, specifically East Africa, has contained glacial regions, possibly as far back as the last glacial maximum 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Seasonal snow does exist on the highest peaks of East Africa as well as in the Drakensberg Range of South Africa, the Stormberg Mountains, and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Currently, the only remaining glaciers on the continent exist on Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Rwenzori.

List of glaciers

Kenya

  • Cesar Glacier
  • Diamond Glacier
  • Darwin Glacier
  • Forel Glacier
  • Gregory Glacier
  • Heim Glacier
  • Josef Glacier
  • Kraph Glacier
  • Lewis Glacier
  • Northey Glacier
  • Tyndall Glacier

[Rwenzori Mountains]

  • Speke Glacier
  • Elena
  • Stanley
  • Baker

Tanzania

All Tanzanian glaciers are located on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. The mountain had 16 named glaciers and three icefields in the middle of the 20th century but by the 1990s, at least 4 glaciers had disappeared and the remaining glaciers had retreated.