Stairway glacier
| Starirway glacier | ||
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 Surprise and Stairway Glaciers (right) |
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| location | Alaska ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Chugach Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Exposure | South southeast | |
| Altitude range | 1800 m - | |
| width | ⌀ 0.85 km | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 4 ′ N , 148 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Surprise Glacier → Harriman Fjord ( Pacific Ocean ) | |
The Stairway Glacier is a left tributary glacier of the Surprise Glacier on the Pacific coast of the US state of Alaska . The glacier got its name ( stairway English for "stairs") from participants in the Harriman-Alaska expedition in 1899.
geography
The nutrient area of the Stairway Glacier is in the Chugach Mountains at an altitude of 1,800 m . The 13 km long and in the lower section 850 m wide glacier flows in a right curve through the mountains and finally meets the Surprise Glacier, which after 3.5 km into Surprise Inlet , a small bay of the Harriman Fjord in the north of the Prinz -William-Sunds , flows out.
Web links
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