La Pérouse Glacier
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 La Pérouse glacier in 2008, with Mount Dagelet behind |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Fairweather Range ( Elias chain ) | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Exposure | southwest | |
| Altitude range | 2900 m - 0 m | |
| width | ⌀ 1.8 km | |
| Coordinates | 58 ° 32 ′ N , 137 ° 14 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Gulf of Alaska ( Pacific Ocean ) | |
| particularities | Tidal glaciers (as of 2010) | |
The La Pérouse Glacier is a 24 km long glacier in Glacier Bay National Park in the Panhandle of Alaska (USA).
geography
The glacier's nutrient area is on the southern flank of Mount Crillon in the southern Fairweather Range at an altitude of 2900 m . From there it flows 7 km to the south and then turns to the southwest. The glacier is flanked by the mountains Mount Dagelet in the north and Mount La Perouse in the south. The glacier, which is around 1.8 km wide on average, squeezes through a 970 m narrow pass and finally reaches the sea coast. The glacier tongue is 3.1 km wide.
Glacier development
In the early 2000s, the position of the glacier's ice front was still stable and lay directly on the sea coast. At the time, the La Pérouse Glacier was the only remaining glacier in North America that periodically calves directly into the open sea .
Naming
The La Pérouse Glacier was named by WH Dall of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC & GS) in 1874 after Jean-François de La Pérouse (1741–1788), a French navigator and geographer.
Web links
- La Perouse Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Daniel E. Lawson: An Overview of Selected Glaciers in Glacier Bay (PDF, 698 KB) National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior. February 2004. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
- ^ La Perouse Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey