Columbus glacier
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_(21601824022).jpg) The Columbus Glacier is located behind the low mountain range (top right in the picture) immediately in front of Mount Saint Elias |
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| location | Alaska (USA), Yukon (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Elias chain | |
| length | 13.5 km | |
| Exposure | west | |
| Altitude range | 2000 m - 1850 m | |
| width | ⌀ 5.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 24 ′ N , 141 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bagley Icefield | |
The Columbus Glacier is a 13.5 km long glacier on the border of Alaska ( USA ) and Yukon (Canada).
The 5.5 km wide Columbus Glacier forms the eastern part of the Bagley Icefield . The nutrient zone is located at an altitude of 2000 m just under 4.5 km east of the border on Canadian territory. In the east it borders the Seward Glacier , which flows to the east. The Columbus Glacier flows west. It is flanked in the south by the mountains Mount Saint Elias and Mount Huxley . The Columbus Glacier extends west to the confluence of the Quintino Sella Glacier .
When Luigi Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta , Duke of Abruzzo, first climbed Mount Saint Elias on July 31, 1897 and saw the glacier north of it, he named it after Christopher Columbus .
