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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.
Gulkana Glacier is a glacier that flows from the ice fields of the south flank of the eastern Alaska Range. [1] It is accessible by gravel roads from the Richardson Highway near mile post 197 at the Richardson Monument, [2] just two miles north of Summit Lake and 12 miles north of Paxson and the junction with Denali Highway. [3]
A National Park Service report on Alaska's glaciers noted glaciers within Alaska national parks shrank 8% between the 1950s and early 2000s and glacier-covered area across the state decreased by ...
Margerie Glacier is a 21 mi (34 km) long tidewater glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska, United States within the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The glacier begins on the southern slopes of Mount Root , elevation 12,860 feet (3,920 m), on the Alaska – Canada border flowing southeast down the valley, then turning to the ...
Nabesna Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fed by deep snowfall in the Wrangell Mountains , the 53 mile (85 km) long [ 1 ] Nabesna is the longest valley glacier in North America [ 2 ] and the world's longest interior valley glacier.
Current research of Climate Change in the field of Glaciology relies upon comparison of historical glacier mass-balance to current conditions. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) historical topographic maps , some more than 65 years old, are useful to a glaciologist in determining glacier change.
The McCarty Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The glacier is named for William McCarty, a former resident of Seward. The glacier has been severely affected by global warming and since the early 1900s its terminus has receded 15 km from the mouth of the bay. [1]
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]