A fine glacier descends from Mount Longstaff. It has cut very deep and the walls stand at an angle of at least 50°. Otherwise, although there are many cwms on the lower ranges, the mountains themselves seem little carved.
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Cwm
//kuːm//
Synonyms for "cwm" (79 found)
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Translations
20 translations across 15 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 山側凹地 /山侧凹地 noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Czech
1 entries- kar noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Dutch
3 entries- U-dal noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
- kaar noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
- keteldal noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Esperanto
1 entries- cirkvalo noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Finnish
1 entries- onsilo noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
French
1 entries- cirque noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
German
1 entries- Kar noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Japanese
2 entries- カール noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
- 圏谷 noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- botn noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- botn noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Polish
3 entries- cyrk lodowcowy noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
- kar noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
- kocioł noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Russian
1 entries- цирк noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- krnica noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Spanish
1 entries- circo noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
Welsh
1 entries- cwm noun (valley head created through glacial erosion)
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