| Gauli Glacier | |||||
| Other Name: | Gauligletscher | ||||
| Location: | Canton of Bern, Switzerland | ||||
| Coords: | 46.6114°N 8.1864°W | ||||
| Length: | 6.2 km | ||||
| Map: | Canton of Bern#Switzerland#Alps | ||||
| Label Position: | bottom | ||||
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The Gauli Glacier (de|Gauligletscher|link=no) is a 6.2km (03.9miles) long glacier (2005) in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. In 1973, it had an area of 17.7km2.The glacier is famous for the 1946 C-53 Skytrooper crash on the Gauli Glacier and the following rescue mission, which was the first carried out by an aircraft (Fieseler Storch) landing on a glacier.
A lake is located at the bottom of the glacier, at a height of 2,146 metres above sea level.[1] Its surface area is 0.28 km2[2]