Furtwängler Glacier

The Furtwängler Glacier is a small glacier near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, named for Walter Furtwängler, who with Siegfried König formed the fourth party to reach Kilimanjaro's summit, in 1912. It is thought to have existed continuously only since about 1650 CE, a period linked to unusually high water levels in Kenya's Lake Naivasha and the start of the Maunder Minimum. The glacier has shrunk sharply in the modern era, from 113,000 square meters in 1976 to 60,000 in 2000 and to about 11,000 square meters by 2018, with a measured thickness of 6 meters in 2006, and about 85 percent of the summit ice cover it belongs to disappeared between 1912 and 2011. In 2006 a large hole was found in the ice that had split the glacier into two separate bodies by 2007. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/