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The welcome sign to Glacier Bay seen by the road entrance. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a 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]
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]
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).
Margerie Glacier is a part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve which—with its combination of tidewater glaciers, coastlines, fjords, rivers and lakes—provides widely varying landscapes and seascapes that support 333 vascular plant taxa, 274 bird species, 160 fish species, 41 mammal species, and 3 amphibian species. [2]
Maclure Glacier, a glacier in Yosemite National Park McClure Pass , a mountain pass in Colorado, USA M'Clure Strait , a strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories
The terminus of Lamplugh Glacier in 2017. Lamplugh Glacier is an 8-mile-long (13 km) glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska.It leads north to its 1961 terminus in Johns Hopkins Inlet, 1.4 miles (2.3 km) west of Ptarmigan Creek and 76 miles (122 km) northwest of Hoonah.
Mercy Bay is a Canadian Arctic waterway in the Northwest Territories. It is a southern arm of M'Clure Strait on northeast Banks Island . The mouth of Castel Bay is less than 20 km (12 mi) to the west.
There is a full service marina at the lake as well. Hang gliding is popular at Lake McClure, and the site is reportedly soarable 320 days of the year. [2] McSwain Dam, about 6 miles (9.7 km) downstream from New Exchequer Dam, was built at the same time and creates Lake McSwain. The lake is a regulating reservoir for