Gidan Furtwängler

Furtwängler Glacier yana kusa da tsaunin Kilimanjaro a Tanzania . An sanya wa wannan ƙanƙarar suna ne bayan Walter Furtwängler wanda, tare da Siegfried König, suka kafa ƙungiya ta huɗu da ta hau kan ƙololuwar Kilimanjaro a shekarar 1912. Kankara ƙaramin ragowar murfin kankara ne wanda ya taɓa lashe saman Kilimanjaro. Kusan kashi 85 cikin 100 na murfin kankara ya ɓace daga Oktoba 1912 zuwa Yuni 2011. A shekarar 2013 an kiyasta cewa a lokacin da ake amfani da shi a yanzu, yawancin kankara za su ɓace nan da shekarar 2040 kuma "ba zai yiwu a sami wani gawar kankara bayan 2060 ba". Furtwängler Glacier ba shi da wani lokaci, yana ci gaba da wanzuwa tun kimanin shekara ta 1650 CE, wanda ya yi daidai da matakan da suka yi yawa a Tafkin Naivasha na Kenya da kuma farkon Maunder Minimum . Tsakanin ma'aunin a 1976 da 2000, an yanke yankin wannan ƙanƙara kusan rabi, daga 113,000 square metres (1,220,000 sq ft) zuwa 60,000 square metres (650,000 sq ft) . Zuwa shekarar 2018 girman ya ragu zuwa 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft) . A shekarar 2022, an yi tunanin cewa ƙanƙarar za ta daina wanzuwa nan da shekarar 2023, inda za a rasa 2,524 square metres (27,170 sq ft) a kowace shekara. A lokacin aikin filin da aka gudanar a farkon shekarar 2006, masana kimiyya sun gano wani babban rami kusa da tsakiyar kankara. Wannan ramin, wanda ya ratsa ta tsawon 6 metres (20 ft) da ya rage na kankara zuwa dutsen da ke ƙarƙashinsa, ya raba kankara gida biyu kafin shekarar 2007. Duba kuma Manazarta