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The Maramureş Mountains (Munţii Maramureşului, 1957 m) are the northernmost formerly glaciated area in the Romanian Carpathians extending along the border with Ukraine. Although the presence of glacial features in this area has been recognised since the end of the century, a comprehensive study on glacier geometry during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) has only recently been attained. Glacial landforms have been documented in seven isolated mountain groups: Pop Ivan, Mezipotoki-Nieneska, Farca u-Mihailecu, Pietrosu Barda ului, Chyvchyn, Toroiaga and Jupania Mountains rising above 1800 m asl. (partially even 1700 m asl.) in the northern part and 1850 m above sea level in the southern part of the study area. We mapped 42 glacial cirques and reconstructed the geometry of 31 small (average length of 1.6 km) paleo glaciers which covered a total area of 14.7 . The reconstructed ELA in the Maramureş Mountains (1515 m asl) was similar to the neighbouring Chornohora Mountains in Ukraine (1516 m asl) and lower compared to the Rodna Mountains (1697 m asl) to the south.