HPS-12 Glacier in 1985 and 2017 Landsat images. The red arrow indicates 1985 terminus, yellow arrows the 2017 terminus, purple dots the snowline and 1-4 are tributaries. By 2017 all tributaries have detached and the glacier has retreated 13 km. HPS-12 is an unnamed glacier draining the west side of the Southern Patagonia Ice Cap…
From a Glaciers Perspective 
Dear Prof. Pelto. Thanks for your great work and very interesting blog!
In 2005, we made a reconnaissance of this area (HO-HA-SY), and in 2016, we came back there to investigate and show great changes due to glacial recession under climate warming.There is an environmental-landscape contrast between the eastern and western Spitsbergen coasts due to their climatic differentiation, under the cold sea current from the central Arctic in the east and warm Atlantic water in the west. Its landscape has been changing rapidly since the beginning of the 20th century because of the recession of glaciers. The glacial isthmus has been narrowed from 28 km in 1899-1900 to 5,6 km in 2016 and lowered by 60-200 m during this period. Two isthmus’ glaciers will melt, given the current temperature conditions, by 2030-2035. Hence, Sørkapp Land will become a new big island separated by a new strait (which will origin due to final connection of the Hornsund and Hambergbukta fjords which are being more and more longer). Hambergbukta fjord lengthened about 1,2 km and Hornsund about 1,5 km since 2005.
Greetings from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.