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Paradise Glacier is a glacier on the southeast flank of Mount Rainier in Washington. It covers 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) and contains 0.8 billion ft 3 (23 million m 3) with Stevens Glacier included. [1] The glacier is bounded to the west by the Muir Snowfield, Anvil Rock and McClure Rock.
The Paradise Ice Caves (also known as the Paradise Glacier Caves) were a system of interconnected glacier caves located within Mount Rainier's Paradise Glacier in the United States. These glacier caves were visited and documented at least as early as 1908. [ 1 ]
Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: Matanuska Glacier and peaks of the Chugach Mountains: The Homer Spit is believed to be the remains of a glacial moraine. Ocean liner and Taku Glacier in art for Canadian Pacific: Mendenhall Glacier and the Coast Mountains, Juneau, Alaska
Paradise is the name of an area at approximately 5,400 feet (1,600 m) on the south slope of Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, United States. Southeast of Seattle , the area lies on the border of Pierce and Lewis counties and includes the Paradise Valley and the Paradise Glacier , the source of the Paradise River . [ 1 ]
Paradise Harbour) is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz Point. The name was first applied by whalers operating in the vicinity and was in use by 1920.
Mount Rainier National Park is a national park of the United States located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state. [3] The park was established on March 2, 1899, as the fourth national park in the United States, preserving 236,381 acres (369.3 sq mi; 956.6 km 2) [1] including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,410-foot (4,390 m) stratovolcano.
The glacier is one of the most easily viewed on the mountain, and is accessible from the Paradise visitor facilities in Mount Rainier National Park. Nisqually Glacier is the source of the Nisqually River. [1] Perhaps the longest studied glacier on Mount Rainier, Nisqually's terminal point has been measured annually since 1918. [2]
Neko Harbour has been classified as an important bird and biodiversity area by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of more than 250 breeding pairs of gentoo penguins that nest on the hill near the beach to avoid risk of being washed away by the large waves frequently generated from the calving of the nearby glacier.