Blockade glacier
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 View from the glacier tongue up the valley |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Chigmit Mountains , Neacola Mountains ( Aleutian Range ) | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 15 km (with the tribute glacier 40 km) | |
| Exposure | Northeast | |
| Altitude range | 354 m - 150 m (nutrient area of the tributary glacier at 1800 m altitude) | |
| width | ⌀ 1.7 km | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 1 ′ N , 152 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| drainage | McArthur River → Cook Inlet ( Pacific Ocean ) | |
The Blockade Glacier is a valley glacier in the extreme northeast of the Aleutian chain in Alaska (USA).
geography
The actual Blockade Glacier flows from Blockade Lake, which is 354 m above sea level, 15 km in a north-easterly direction, being flanked by the Neacola Mountains on the left and the Chigmit Mountains on the right. The 1.7 km wide blockade glacier ends at a height of about 150 m . The below the glacier flowing past McArthur River takes the meltwater of the glacier and flows later in the Cook Inlet . About 10 km above the lower end of the glacier, the Blockade Glacier joins a 30 km long and much larger tributary glacier flowing in from the left , which runs northwest of Blockade Lake and has its nutrient area at an altitude of 1,800 m .
