List of glaciers in Alaska

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Taku Glacier in the Boundary Ranges
Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains
Hubbard Glacier in the Elias Range
Ruth Glacier in the Alaska Range
LeConte Glacier in the Tongass National Forest
South Sawyer Glacier in the Boundary Ranges

In Alaska , which during the last great ice age at the end of the Pleistocene was only under a closed ice cover in the coastal mountains and the Brooks range , there are around 100,000 glaciers , of which around 650 have a name. They are located in a wide variety of geographical regions, from the peaks of the mountains to the coast of the Pacific . Five percent of the area of ​​the state, around 85,000 km² (roughly the area of Austria ), is covered by ice. With the exception of a few glaciers that flow into the sea, almost all glaciers in Alaska recede. Since the early 1980s, glacier retreat has been increasing at an increasing rate.

List of glaciers in Alaska

The list is incomplete; this is an independent selection. If the name is the same, the location of the glacier is listed.

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Web links

Commons : Glaciers of Alaska (Category)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Glaciers of Alaska (Gallery)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Icefields and Glaciers on fs.fed.us
  2. ^ Geographic Names Information System
  3. ↑ Recordings of retreating glaciers in Alaska on usgs.gov ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usgs.gov