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The glacier is named after William Maclure. [1] Like most glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, Maclure Glacier is a small cirque glacier that is .20 mi (0.32 km) long and covers an area of only .08 sq mi (0.21 km 2). The mean elevation of the glacier is around 11,400 ft (3,500 m). [3]
Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek is an international park system located in Canada and the United States, at the border of Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 for the spectacular glacier and icefield landscapes as well as for the importance of grizzly bears ...
McClure, Virginia, USA; Maclure Glacier, a glacier in Yosemite National Park; McClure Pass, a mountain pass in Colorado, USA; McClure Peak, a mountain in New Zealand; M'Clure Strait, a strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories; McClure Township, Holt County, Nebraska, USA; Lake McClure, a reservoir in central California, USA
The North and South Crillon Glaciers flow west from the peak toward Lituya Bay. The La Perouse Glacier flows south from the peak. The north side of the peak forms the head of the southern branch of the Johns Hopkins Glacier, which empties into Johns Hopkins Inlet, off of Glacier Bay. To the east of the peak lies the large icefield which forms ...
The peak is situated in Glacier Bay National Park, 4 mi (6 km) southeast of Mount Dagelet, 7.6 mi (12 km) south-southeast of Mount Crillon which is the nearest higher peak, and 28.6 mi (46 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather, which is the highest peak in the Fairweather Range.
Mount Maclure is the nearest neighbor to Mount Lyell, the highest point in Yosemite National Park.Mount Maclure is the fifth-highest mountain of Yosemite. [6] [7] Mount Maclure is located at the southeast end of the Cathedral Range, about 0.6 miles (0.97 km) northwest of Lyell.
McClure Peak is located on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps, with the summit set on the boundary shared by the Canterbury and West Coast Regions of the South Island. [3] It is situated 180 kilometres (112 mi) west of the city of Christchurch on the northeastern boundary of Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park .
M'Clure Bay (variant: McClure Bay [2]) is a Peel Sound map waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the western side of Somerset Island, map between Aston Bay map and Birmingham Bay map. The bay is named in honour of Arctic explorer Sir Robert McClure (M'Clure).