Bear Glacier (Alaska)
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 View from Resurrection Bay to Bear Glacier |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Kenai Mountains | |
| Type | Outlet glacier | |
| length | 25 km | |
| Exposure | Southeast | |
| Altitude range | 1000 m - 0 m | |
| width | ⌀ 2.4 km | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 0 ′ N , 149 ° 38 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Resurrection Bay ( Gulf of Alaska ) | |
 Satellite image of the glacier |
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The Bear Glacier is a glacier in the south of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska . It is located in the Kenai Fjords National Park .
The Bear Glacier is fed by the Harding Icefield , a large glacier area in the Kenai Mountains , and flows into Resurrection Bay 15 miles south of Seward at its transition to the Gulf of Alaska .
Between the 1950s and 1990s, the glacier has annually by an average of 0.75 m retired .
See also
Web links
Commons : Bear Glacier - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
- Bear Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- A Sensitive Giant: Alaska's Bear Glacier (USGS, PDF file; 539 kB)
- Bear Glacier Outburst Flood (NPS)