Johns_Hopkins_Glacier

Johns Hopkins Glacier

Johns Hopkins Glacier

Glacier in Alaska, United States

Johns Hopkins Glacier (Lingít: Tsalxaan Niyaadé Sít’) is a 12-mile (19 km) long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the east slopes of Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury, and trends east to the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the terminus of Clark Glacier on Mount Abbe, and 79 miles (127 km) northwest of Hoonah. It was named, colonially, after Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1893 by Harry Fielding Reid.[1] It is one of the few advancing tidewater glaciers of the Fairweather Range.[2] Access to the face of the glacier is limited to the Johns Hopkins Inlet.[3]

Terminus of Lamplugh Glacier located near Johns Hopkins Glacier
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  1. [1]
    "Johns Hopkins Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. [2]
    Lawson, Daniel E. "An Overview of Selected Glaciers in Glacier Bay" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Johns Hopkins Glacier: One of Few Advancing Glacier". alaska.org. Retrieved October 16, 2014.


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