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Lamplugh Glacier. Coordinates: 58°49′56″N 136°53′43″W. 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 ...
1992, 1994. The welcome sign to Glacier Bay seen by the road entrance. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park 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]
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 ...
Logan Glacier. Malaspina Glacier. Margerie Glacier - Glacier Bay. Martin River Glacier. Matanuska Glacier and peaks of the Chugach Mountains. Matanuska Glacier. McBride Glacier - Glacier Bay. McCall Glacier (Alaska) - Brooks Range, Romanzoff Mountains. McCarty Glacier - Kenai Peninsula/Harding Icefield.
A glacier, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) long, draining east to the coast of Victoria Land immediately north of Lewandowski Point. The seaward extremity of this glacier merges with the flow of Davis Glacier and other glaciers from the south and contributes to the floating tongue of ice between Cape Reynolds and Lamplugh Island.
Johns Hopkins Glacier (Lingít: Tsalxaan Niyaadé Sít’) is a 12-mile (19 km) long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska.It begins on the east slopes of Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury, and trends east to the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the terminus of Clark Glacier on Mount Abbe, and 79 miles (127 km ...
It is set within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and is situated 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Mount Cooper. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises from tidewater of Glacier Bay in 1.7 miles (2.7 km) and the west face rises 2,000 feet (610 m) above the Lamplugh Glacier in 0.5
George William Lamplugh. George William Lamplugh (8 April 1859 – 9 October 1926) was a British geologist. [1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925. [2] He was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1901.