Russell Fjord
| Russell Fjord Russell Fiord |
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 View from Disenchantment Bay to the opening between Hubbard Glacier and the mainland to the Russell Fjord |
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| Waters | Disenchantment Bay | |
| Land mass | Mainland North America | |
| Geographical location | 59 ° 56 ′ N , 139 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 3.5 km | |
| length | approx. 50 km | |
| Tributaries | Beasley Creek , Hidden Glacier | |
 Map of Yakutat Bay with Disenchantment Bay in the northeast and the Russell Fjord to the south |
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The Russell Fjord ( English Russell Fiord ) a fjord in the northwest of the Panhandle of Alaska .
The fjord flows into Disenchantment Bay in the northeast of Yakutat Bay . The opening to Disenchantment Bay is periodically closed at Gilbert Point by the Hubbard Glacier . The break of the Hubbard Glacier on August 14, 2002, which cut off Russell Fjord from Disenchantment Bay for around a month, was the second largest man-made glacier run to date .
In 1980 the United States Congress designated the fjord and the surrounding area with a total area of 1,411 km² under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act as Wilderness Area , the strictest class of nature reserves in the United States, in which human interference with nature is minimal are made. The Russell Fjord Wilderness borders the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness in the northwest . It is administered by the United States Forest Service .
The fjord is about 50 km long and 3.5 km wide. The fjord is fed by the tributary Beasley Creek and the Hidden Glacier . The Nunatak Fjord (Nunatak Fiord), fed by the East Nunatak Glacier and West Nunatak Glacier , branches off to the right .
Web links
- Wilderness.net: Russell Fjord Wilderness
- Russell Fjord in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
Individual evidence
- ^ Second-Largest Glacial Flood Worldwide in Historic Times Occurs as Russell Lake Glacier Dam Ruptures (USGS, August 16, 2002)
- ↑ Hubbard Glacier, Alaska: 2002 closure and outburst of Russell Fjord and postflood conditions at Gilbert Point (agu.org, April 14, 2007)