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Blue Glacier is a large glacier located to the north of Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. [4] The glacier covers an area of 1.7 sq mi (4.4 km 2 ) and contains 580,000,000 cu ft (16,000,000 m 3 ) of ice and snow in spite of its low terminus elevation. [ 2 ]
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.
Mount Mathias is a 7,156-foot (2,181-metre) mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Jefferson County of Washington state. [4] Its nearest higher neighbor is Mount Olympus, 1.76 mi (2.83 km) to the east. [1] Mount Mathias is wedged between the massive Blue Glacier below its west slope, and the Hoh Glacier on the east side.
Mount Olympus receives a large amount of snow and consequently has the greatest glaciation of any non-volcanic peak in the contiguous United States outside of the North Cascades. It has several glaciers, the largest of which is Hoh Glacier at 3.06 miles (4.93 km) in length. In the east, the range becomes much drier due to the rain shadow of the ...
With notable local relief, Mount Olympus ascends over 2,100 m (6,900 ft) from the 293 m (961 ft) elevation confluence of the Hoh River with Glacier Creek in only 8.8 km (5.5 mi). Mount Olympus has 2,386 m (7,828 ft) of prominence, ranking 5th in the state of Washington. [5]
Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park Resort is a theme park and water park resort complex in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.The resort is themed after Ancient Greece, particularly its mythology and gods, and is named after the mountain in Greece where those gods were said to live. Mt. Olympus features an indoor and outdoor water park (home to America's first rotating waterslide, first wooden coaster ...
Humes Glacier is located in the Olympic Mountains in Olympic National Park, approximately 2.25 miles (3.62 km) southeast of the summit of Mount Olympus. [2] The glacier starts at nearly 6,000 ft (1,800 m) and descends downslope 1.25 mi (2.01 km), terminating at 4,800 ft (1,500 m) above sea level.
Glaciers in California. For convenience, all glaciers in California should be included in this category. This includes all the glaciers that can also be found in the subcategories.