Bagley Icefield
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Elias Range , Chugach Mountains | |
| Type | Plateau glacier | |
| length | 200 km | |
| surface | 5200 km² (including all tributary and outlet glaciers) | |
| width | ⌀ 10 km | |
| Ice thickness | Max. 1000 m | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 29 ′ N , 141 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| particularities | Largest ice field outside the polar region | |
The Bagley Icefield (sometimes also Bagley Ice Valley ) in Alaska extends in the core area of the Saint Elias Mountains and parts of the Chugach Mountains and is the largest contiguous glacier ice field outside of the polar regions.
It feeds several dozen glaciers and covers a total area of around 5200 km².
It was named after James W. Bagley, a USGS - topographer , the Bagley-T-3 camera developed and Alaska before the First World War mapped.
The ice field is located in the reserve of the Wrangell-St.-Elias National Park .
Web links
Commons : Bagley Icefield - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c National Park Service: Wrangell-St. Elias Park & Preserve - Glaciers
- ↑ Craig S. Lingle et al .: Dynamic Behavior of the Bering Glacier-Bagley Icefield System During a Surge, and Other Measurements of Alaskan Glaciers with ERS SAR Imagery. Third ERS Symposium on Space at the service of our Environment, Florence 1997, bibcode : 1997ESASP.414..995L
- ^ National Geographic: Weird and Wild in the Parks Map