Calderone glacier

{{Short description|Glacier in the Apennine Mountains, Abruzzo, Italy}}

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| location = Southern slopes of the Corno Grande massif

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The Calderone glacier ({{langx|it|Ghiacciaio del Calderone}}) is a glacier located in the Apennine Mountains in Abruzzo, Italy. Found in the Gran Sasso d'Italia mountain group, it lies just beneath the Corno Grande, the highest peak in the Apennines.

With the disappearance of the Corral de la Veleta glacier in the Sierra Nevada in 1913, "Il Calderone" became one of Europe's southernmost known glaciers (42°28′N, 13°33′E), being slightly to the north only compared to Snezhnika (latitude of 41°46′09″ N) and Banski Suhodol Glaciers in Pirin Mountain in Bulgaria.{{cite web|title=(the pirin mountains, bulgaria) in the last ten years|url=http://www.igipz.pan.pl/tl_files/igipz/ZGiHGiW/sgcb/sgbc_45/03gaczew.pdf|publisher=igipz.pan.pl|accessdate=5 February 2014}}{{Citation

|last1 = Grunewald

|first1 = K

|last2 = Scheithauer

|first2 = J

|title = Europe's southernmost glaciers: response and adaptation to climate change

|journal = Journal of Glaciology

|volume = 56

|issue = 195

|year = 2010

|pages = 129–142

|doi = 10.3189/002214310791190947

|bibcode = 2010JGlac..56..129G

|doi-access = free

}}{{Cite journal |last=Gachev |first=Emil |last2=Gikov |first2=Alexander |last3=Zlatinova |first3=Cvetelina |last4=Blagoev |first4=Bozidar |title=Present state of Bulgarian glacierets |url=http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/sgp/LA/LA11/LA11_05.pdf |journal=Landform Analysis |volume=11}}{{Cite journal |last=Gachev |first=Emil |last2=Stoyanov |first2=Krasimir |date=2013 |title=СЪВРЕМЕННИ СНЕЖНО-ФИРНОВИ ТЕЛА В ПЛАНИНАТА ПРОКЛЕТИЯ (АЛБАНСКИ АЛПИ) |url=http://geoproblems.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2013_12/7_gachev.pdf |journal=Problems of Geography |language=bg}} If present deglaciation trends continue, the Calderone may soon disappear as well. The discovery of a number of small glaciers in the Accursed Mountains in 2009 seemed to threaten Calderone's positions.{{Citation

|last1 = Grunewald

|first1 = K

|last2 = Scheithauer

|first2 = J

|title = Europe's southernmost glaciers: response and adaptation to climate change

|journal = Journal of Glaciology

|volume = 56

|issue = 195

|year = 2010

|pages = 129–142

|doi = 10.3189/002214310791190947

|bibcode = 2010JGlac..56..129G

|doi-access = free

}}