Margerie Glacier
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 Margerie Glacier with Mount Fairweather in the background |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ), British Columbia (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Fairweather Range ( Elias chain ) | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 34 km | |
| Exposure | North northeast | |
| Altitude range | 3000 m - 0 m | |
| width | ⌀ 1.3 km | |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 1 ′ N , 137 ° 6 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Tarr Inlet ( Glacier Bay ) | |
| particularities | Tidal glaciers | |
 The glacier front as seen from a cruise ship |
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The Margerie Glacier is a 34 km long glacier in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska (USA) and in British Columbia (Canada) around 140 km northwest of Hoonah .
It rises on the southern flank of Mount Root , in the Fairweather Range , in the Canadian province of British Columbia . From there it flows at a speed of almost two meters per year, initially in a south-southeastern direction across the border to Alaska. Then it turns to the east and finally in a north-northeast direction to the Tarr Inlet . The mouth of the Grand Pacific Glacier is about a kilometer northeast .
The ice front rises around 75 m above the water of the fjord, around 30 m are under water. Over the past few decades, the glacier has grown by around ten meters per year. In 1990 the mouths of the Margerie and Grand Pacific glaciers met, but the Grand Pacific retreated in the following years, creating two separate ice fronts again.
The glacier was named in 1923 by Lawrence Martin of the United States Geological Survey after Emmanuel de Margerie (1862-1953), a French geologist who had visited Glacier Bay in 1913 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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.
- ^ Margerie Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey