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Moiry Glacier

glacier in Switzerland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ82359 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Moiry Glacier (French: Glacier de Moiry) is a 5 km long glacier (2005) situated in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of 5.75 km2.

Editorial summary

“Moiry Glacier” enters the record as glacier in Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moiry, Glacier and glacier can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moiry, Glacier and glacier.
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Why this record matters

“Moiry Glacier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moiry, Glacier and glacier provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q82359. VIAF identifies the subject as 299668125. Authority coordinates are 46.078, 7.599. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 1973.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Moiry Glacier primary sources, Moiry Glacier archive and Moiry research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Moiry Glacier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.