**4. Revised inventory of small glaciers on the Balkan Peninsula**

As a result of all research done by now, 16 sustainable (perennial) firn/ice features in the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula can be indexed in the category of small glaciers (**Table 1**). Summer lasting snow patches have been observed also in other mountain ranges such as in Olympus (Kazania cirque), in Rila (the cirque of the Seven lakes), in Maglić, Korab and others. None of them, however, is proved to have both persistency and indications of dynamic motion.


**Figure 9.** Small glaciers and snow patches in Karanfili range.

1640 m a. s. l. and 1750–1800 m a. s. l.

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peak), are the two lowermost summer-lasting snow patches on the Balkans: at altitudes of

As a result of all research done by now, 16 sustainable (perennial) firn/ice features in the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula can be indexed in the category of small glaciers (**Table 1**). Summer lasting snow patches have been observed also in other mountain ranges such as in Olympus (Kazania cirque), in Rila (the cirque of the Seven lakes), in Maglić, Korab and others. None of them, however, is proved to have both persistency and indications of dynamic motion.

**4. Revised inventory of small glaciers on the Balkan Peninsula**

**Table1.** List of small glaciers in the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula.
