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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an national park of the United States located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 26, 1925. [4] Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the ...
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 ...
Research published in July in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications, found the rates of glacier area shrinkage in Alaska’s Juneau icefield were five times faster from 2015 to ...
Mount Tlingit is part of the Fairweather Range which is a subrange of the Saint Elias Mountains.The glaciated peak is located in Glacier Bay National Park, 2.3 mi (4 km) southeast of the Canada–United States border, and 4.8 mi (8 km) east of Mount Fairweather, which is the highest peak in the Fairweather Range. [1]
Grand Pacific Glacier is a 25 km (16 mi) long glacier in British Columbia and Alaska.It begins in Glacier Bay National Park in the Saint Elias Mountains, 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Mount Hay, trends east into the Grand Pacific Pass area of British Columbia, and then southeast to the head of Tarr Inlet at Alaska-Canada boundary, 68 miles (109 km) west of Skagway.
Misty Fjords National Monument (or Misty Fiords National Monument) is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National Forest. Misty Fiords is about 40 miles (64 km) east of Ketchikan, Alaska, along the Inside Passage coast in extreme southeastern Alaska, comprising 2,294,343 acres ...
Marble Mountain is a 3,366-foot (1,026-meter) mountain summit located in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains, in southeast Alaska. [2] The peak is situated in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve at the entrance to Geikie Inlet, 68 mi (109 km) west-northwest of Juneau, and 10.7 mi (17 km) east-northeast of Blackthorn Peak.
Green Bay Common Council President Brian Johnson said a press conference is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. Wednesday near the "I Love GB" statue on CityDeck, on the Fox River in downtown Green Bay.