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Residents of Seward, Alaska generally ignored the huge icefield west of town before 1922. The construction of the Spruce Creek trail that year, however, made it possible to view the upper portions of the icecap, and President Harding's promise to visit the territory was sufficient to bestow his name on the feature.
View of the Juneau Icefield. The Juneau Icefield is an ice field located just north of Juneau, Alaska, continuing north through the border with British Columbia, [1] extending through an area of 3,900 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi) in the Coast Range ranging 140 km (87 mi) north to south and 75 km (47 mi) east to west.
Many particularly expansive ice fields lie in the Coast Mountains, Alaska Range, and Chugach Mountains of Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory. The 6,500 km 2 Stikine Icecap (located between the Stikine and Taku Rivers ) and the 2,500 km 2 Juneau Icefield (located between Lynn Canal and the Taku River ) both straddle the British ...
Also on the Canadian side and entering the lower Stikine, like the Great Glacier, are the Mud and Flood Glaciers, which form the boundaries of the small Boundary Range, which is an eastern abutment of the range comprising the Stikine Icecap and marks the approximate boundary claimed by the United States prior to the Alaska Boundary Settlement ...
The melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating. It slowly shriveled from its peak size at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, but then that melt ...
The Bagley Icefield (also called Bagley Ice Valley) in southeastern Alaska is the second largest nonpolar icefield in North America.It was named after James W. Bagley, a USGS topographic engineer who developed the Bagley T-3 camera and mapped Alaska prior to World War I. [1]