Matanuska glacier
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 Matanuska glacier |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Chugach Mountains | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 39 km | |
| Exposure | North northwest | |
| Altitude range | 2400 m - 500 m | |
| width | ⌀ 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 39 ′ N , 147 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Matanuska River → Cook Inlet | |
The Matanuska Glacier (from Russian: Матануска ) is a 39 km long, at its end six kilometers wide glacier in southern Alaska on the northern flank of the Chugach Mountains , north of Mount Marcus Baker .
Mount Wickersham forms its western flank . The meltwater from the glacier flows over the Matanuska River into the Cook Inlet .
In the past 400 years it has hardly lost its size, but earlier it reached as far as the area of today's Palmer , 90 km to the west . The glacier tongue reached close to the Glenn Highway . In the last 13 years, however, it has melted very much, so that it can no longer get to the highway today.
Web links
Commons : Matanuska Glacier - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
- Matanuska Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Interactive panorama: Matanuska Glacier
