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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] Both the Maclure Glacier and the Lyell Glacier, located nearby on ...
Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek is an international park system located in Canada and the United States, at the border of Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 for the spectacular glacier and icefield landscapes as well as for the importance of grizzly bears ...
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]
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 ...
Mount Maclure is the nearest neighbor to Mount Lyell, the highest point in Yosemite National Park.Mount Maclure is the fifth-highest mountain of Yosemite. [6] [7] Mount Maclure is located at the southeast end of the Cathedral Range, about 0.6 miles (0.97 km) northwest of Lyell.
McClure Peak is located on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps, with the summit set on the boundary shared by the Canterbury and West Coast Regions of the South Island. [3] It is situated 180 kilometres (112 mi) west of the city of Christchurch on the northeastern boundary of Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park .
McClure, Virginia, USA; Maclure Glacier, a glacier in Yosemite National Park; McClure Pass, a mountain pass in Colorado, USA; McClure Peak, a mountain in New Zealand; M'Clure Strait, a strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories; McClure Township, Holt County, Nebraska, USA; Lake McClure, a reservoir in central California, USA
Glacial outwash sediment, Knud Rasmussen Glacier, Greenland. An outwash fan is a fan-shaped body of sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier.Sediment locked within the ice of the glacier gets transported by the streams of meltwater, and deposits on the outwash plain, at the terminus of the glacier.