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2. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Margerie Glacier - Wikipedia

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   Margerie Glacier is a 21 mi (34 km) long tidewater glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska, United States within the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The glacier begins on the southern slopes of Mount Root , elevation 12,860 feet (3,920 m), on the Alaska – Canada border flowing southeast down the valley, then turning to the ...

4. Retreat of glaciers since 1850 - Wikipedia

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   A 1992 to 1998 observation of the Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia and Antizana Glacier in Ecuador indicate that between 0.6 m (2.0 ft) and 1.9 m (6.2 ft) of ice was lost per year on each glacier. Figures for Chacaltaya show a loss of 67% of its volume and 40% of its thickness over the same period.

5. Muir Glacier - Wikipedia

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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. [1] The glacier is named after Scottish-born naturalist John ...

6. Thwaites Glacier - Wikipedia

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   The Thwaites Glacier Tongue, or Western Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 106°50′W) was a narrow, floating part of the glacier, located about 30 mi (48 km) east of Mount Murphy. [28] It was the first part of the glacier to be mapped, [1] based on 65,000 aerial photographs collected during Operation Highjump in 1947. Back then, it was about 95 km (59 ...

7. Toyota 4Runner - Wikipedia

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   The Trekker was a similar "walk-through" third-party conversion of the short-bed Toyota Hilux truck, built by Winnebago Industries from 1981 to 1983. Winnebago removed the rear wall and added a bench seat in the bed, protecting these occupants by a permanently-fixed fiberglass shell; [6] in concept, it was similar to the Chevrolet K5 Blazer.