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The Hubbard Glacier ice margin has continued to advance for about a century. In May 1986, the Hubbard Glacier surged forward, blocking the outlet of Russell Fjord and creating Russell Lake. All that summer, the new lake filled with runoff; its water level rose 25 metres (82 ft), and the decrease in salinity threatened its sea life.
Mina Benson Hubbard (April 15, 1870 - May 4, 1956) was a Canadian explorer and was the first white woman to travel and explore the back-country of Labrador. [1] The Nascaupee and George River system were first accurately mapped by her in 1905. [2] She was the wife of Leonidas Hubbard who was famous for his ill-fated expedition to Labrador in 1903.
The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane National Park Reserve [6] in southwestern Yukon, less than 40 km (25 mi) north of the Yukon–Alaska border. Mount Logan is the source of the Hubbard and Logan glaciers.
On these cruises (usually toward the end), I look forward to encountering Hubbard Glacier, the largest tidewater glacier in North America. Its scale is truly staggering, stretching 6 miles wide ...
The mountain was named in 1890 by U.S. Geological Survey geologist Israel Russell after Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president of the National Geographic Society, which had co-sponsored Russell's expedition. [3] Hubbard is the highest point of a large massif with three named summits; the other two are Mount Alverstone and Mount Kennedy.
A woman died after she fell from a rocky cliff and was swept into a gorge in Glacier National Park in Montana, authorities said.. The 28-year-old from Kansas, who officials did not name, fell from ...
A Pennsylvania woman drowned Sunday after she was swept over a series of waterfalls and pinned underwater by a log at Glacier National Park in Montana.
Exit Glacier, Alaska. Glaciers are located in ten states, with the vast majority in Alaska. [1] 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. [2] [3