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Muir Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska.It is currently about 0.7 km (0.43 mi) wide at the terminus. As recently as the mid-1980s the glacier was a tidewater glacier and calved icebergs from a wall of ice 90 m (200 feet) tall.
Muir sent dispatches back to San Francisco to be published in the San Francisco Bulletin in both 1879 and 1880, eventually collecting these stories, accounts of his third and fourth trips in 1890 and 1899, and later lectures and articles into the 1915 book Travels in Alaska, promoting Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage. Muir's writings led to ...
John Muir (/ m jʊər / MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), [1] also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", [2] was a Scottish-born American [3] [4]: 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
The most popular way to see Glacier Bay is by boat. Peter Christian, chief spokesperson for Public Affairs for the National Park Service’s Alaska region, said highly regulated cruise ships "go ...
Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980, enlarged and designated as the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, covering an area of ...
Muir Inlet schematic map. Muir Inlet is an inlet in Glacier Bay in Alaska in the United States. Muir Inlet heads in Muir Glacier, and extends for 48 kilometers (30 mi) [1] south to Glacier Bay, 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Hoonah, Alaska. [2] Muir Inlet is separated from Chilkat Inlet and Lynn Canal by the Chilkat Range.
Pillsbury, Arthur C., panorama & still photographer (rendezvoused with the ship June 1899 taking panoramas of the Muir Glacier, John Muir, and the ship) [3] Writers. George Bird Grinnell, expert on Native American culture (Editor, Forest and Stream) John Burroughs, Author
In Glacier National Park, the last episode of glacier advance came in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries. [67] In 1879, the famed naturalist John Muir found that Glacier Bay ice had retreated 48 miles (77 km).