Cushing Glacier
| Cushing Glacier | ||
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Alsek Ranges ( Elias chain ) | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 17 km | |
| Exposure | South southeast | |
| Altitude range | 1250 m - 300 m | |
| width | ⌀ 1.3 km | |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 5 ′ N , 136 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | → Wachusett Inlet ( Glacier Bay ) | |
| particularities | Glacier retreat | |
The Cushing Glacier is a 17 km long glacier in Glacier Bay National Park in the Panhandle of Alaska .
geography
The glacier's nutrient zone is located at an altitude of 1250 m near the Canadian border in the Alsek Ranges . From there, the glacier, which is 1.3 km wide on average, flows in a south-southeast direction and ends at an altitude of around 300 m . The meltwater of the glacier flows over a distance of 9 km to the head end of Wachusett Inlet , a side bay of Glacier Bay . To the west of the Cushing Glacier runs the Carroll Glacier , further east the Morse Glacier .
Glacier development
Similar to the neighboring glaciers, the Cushing Glacier is steadily retreating and losing its ice thickness. Since the snow supply in the nutrient area was relatively low and the temperatures at the glacier tongue were moderately mild, the glacier did not reach the sea in recent history.
Naming
The glacier was named after Henry Platt Cushing (1860–1921), a participant on the Glacier Bay excursion in 1890.
Web links
- Cushing Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Video at NASA, Scientific Visualization Studio: Changes in Glacier Bay: Carroll and Cushing Glaciers
- Photo at alaska.guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska (PDF, 2.8 MB) National Park Service. 1959. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
- ^ Cushing Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey