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Roseg Glacier

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Roseg Glacier, known in Romansh as Vadret da Roseg, is a glacier in the Val Roseg valley in the Bernina Range in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It covered 8.52 square kilometers in 1973 but had shrunk to about 4 kilometers in length by 2005, and its wetland has been registered as a Ramsar site since February 2, 2005, and is monitored as part of Switzerland glacier observation network.

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