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Hubbard Glacier (Lingít: Sít' Tlein) is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard.
The fjord was named in 1901 by Marcus Baker of the U.S. Geological Survey for explorer Israel Russell, who discovered the estuary in 1891 while exploring the Yakutat region. The opening into Disenchantment Bay has been periodically blocked by Hubbard Glacier, turning Russell Fiord into a lake collecting freshwater run-off from the glacier. The ...
Hubbard Glacier (Danish: Hubbard Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. [2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822 – 1897), founder and first president of the American Geographical Society .
Several features are particularly notable. The Malaspina Glacier is the largest piedmont glacier in North America, Hubbard Glacier is at 75 miles (121 km) the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, and the Nabesna Glacier is the world's longest valley glacier, at more than 53 miles (85 km). [51] Glaciers in Wrangell–St. Elias are mostly in retreat.
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.
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.
Hobart Bay, Alaska. Population: 1 . Located 70 miles south of Juneau, Hobart Bay was once a thriving logging town. Until 1998, it had enough residents to support a local school, but now it's ...
Gannett Glacier is the largest glacier in the American Rockies and is located in the remote Wind River Range, Wyoming Main article: List of glaciers in Wyoming There are around 105 glaciers in Wyoming, with 37 named glaciers according to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).