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The southernmost named glacier is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, east of the Central Valley of California. Apart from Alaska, around 1330 glaciers, 1175 perennial snow fields , and 35 buried-ice features have been identified.
The accessibility of Glacier Bay brought naturalists and geologists to study, survey and name the glaciers. The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was organized by railroad executive Edward Harriman who recruited Muir, George Bird Grinnell, photographer Edward S. Curtis and several others to study the Alaska coast on a specially-outfitted ship ...
Locational map of major features of the Alaska Panhandle area including the Juneau Icefield in the northern portion Eight kilometers to the north, the Herbert Glacier has retreated 540 m (0.34 mi), while Eagle Glacier retreated 700 m (0.43 mi), Gilkey Glacier 3,500 m (2.2 mi) and Llewellyn Glacier 2,800 m (1.7 mi).
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 ...
The Knik Glacier (Dena'ina: Skitnu Łi'a) is an ice field located 50 miles (80 km) east of Anchorage, Alaska on the northern end of the Chugach Mountains. The ice field averages over 25 miles (40 km) long and over 5 miles (8.0 km) across, making it one of the largest glaciers in southcentral Alaska .
Polychrome Glaciers 18] 5,108 feet (1,557 m) (five glaciers in neighboring valleys Ruth Glacier ( 62°50′07″N 150°51′36″W / 62.83528°N 150.86000°W / 62.83528; -150.86000 ( Ruth Glacier ) ; [ 20 ] 2,185 feet (666 m) (also the West, Northwest and Northeast Forks of Ruth Glacier near its