Guyot glacier
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_(21424774120).jpg) Guyot Glacier in 2015 |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Chugach Mountains | |
| length | 24 km | |
| surface | 470 km² | |
| Exposure | east | |
| Altitude range | 1700 m - 0 m | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 11 ′ N , 141 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Icy Bay ( Pacific Ocean ) | |
| particularities | Tidal glaciers | |
_(20989957604).jpg) Guyot Glacier in 2015 |
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The Guyot Glacier is a glacier in the US state of Alaska . It is located in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park about 130 km northwest of the settlement of Yakutat .
geography
The Guyot Glacier has its nutrient base on the northern flank of the Robinson Mountains , a mountain range on the Pacific coast in the far east of the Chugach Mountains . From there it flows in an easterly direction and flows south of the Guyot Hills into Icy Bay . In the north it borders on the Yahtse glacier . The Guyot Glacier forms two glacier tongues that extend to the sea. The glacier covers an area of around 470 km². The lengthwise extension in west-east direction is 24 km, in north-south direction it measures 16 km.
Glacier development
The Guyot Glacier retreated sharply in the 20th century. It was separated from the glacier tongue of the Yahtse glacier.
Naming
The glacier was named in 1886 by an Alaska expedition after Arnold Henri Guyot (1807-1884), a Swiss-American naturalist and geographer.
