Kennicott Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It trends southeast 43 km (27 mi) from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of the Kennicott River in the Wrangell Mountains.[1] It is located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park near the small town of McCarthy, Alaska and the historic ghost town of Kennecott, Alaska.
It was named in 1899 by geologist Oscar Rohn of the United States Geological Survey for Robert Kennicott,[2] pioneer Alaska explorer and director of the scientific corps of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in 1865.
Packsaddle Island is a nunatak located within the glacier near the base of Mount Blackburn.[3]
The glacier is also the namesake of the Alaska Marine Highway vessel M/V Kennicott.
^Peter G. Knight (2006). Glacier science and environmental change. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4051-0018-2.
^Charles Caldwell Hawley (2014). A Kennecott Story. The University of Utah Press. p. 21.
^Wrangell-St.Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska USA (Map) (1997 ed.). National Geographic. § 249.
KennicottGlacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It trends southeast 43 km (27 mi) from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of the Kennicott...
on the expedition and was memorialized as the namesake of Alaska's KennicottGlacier. His home, "The Grove" in Glenview, Illinois, is today recognized...
M/V Kennicott is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Constructed in 1998 by the Halter Marine Group in Moss Point, Mississippi...
covered almost entirely by icefields and glaciers and is the principal source of ice for the KennicottGlacier, which flows southeast over 20 miles (32 km)...
between the much more extensive basins of the Kuskulana Glacier on the west and the KennicottGlacier on the east. The Lakina is not as large or as turbulent...
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, in Alaska. It is surrounded by the KennicottGlacier, and sits near the base of Mount Blackburn (16,390 feet). Wrangell-St...
southeast to join the Nizina Glacier, while the Root Glacier flows south 15 miles (24 km) to join the KennicottGlacier just above the town of McCarthy...
east across a glacier-covered saddle. The steep rocky south faces of these three peaks form part of the cirque of the KennicottGlacier, which flows southeast...
1906 by J. P. Morgan and Simon Guggenheim. The Syndicate purchased the Kennicott-Bonanza copper mine and had majority control of the Alaskan steamship...
National Park and Preserve, immediately west of the terminus of the KennicottGlacier, and 5 mi (8 km) west-northwest of McCarthy. Precipitation runoff...
day the summit of Porphyry Mountain offers views of Donoho Peak, KennicottGlacier, and Mount Blackburn to the northwest, and Fireweed Mountain to the...
9 mi (14 km) north of McCarthy, at the confluence of the KennicottGlacier and Root Glacier. The peak's name was reported in 1931 by the United States...
and the Guggenheim family to haul copper from the old mining town of Kennicott, now located within the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve...
hauled in by boat and horse team to the remote site at the base of the KennicottGlacier." In need of proper resources, Birch formed an organization and sought...
gravel and sand from the overlying formation. Kennicott River carries the flow from KennicottGlacier to the Nizina River, a distance of about 4 miles...
26 Kennecott Mines More images June 23, 1986 (#78003420) East of KennicottGlacier, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of McCarthy 61°31′09″N 142°50′29″W...
of the massif, is the Traleika Glacier. The Ruth Glacier lies to the southeast of the mountain, and the Kahiltna Glacier leads up to the southwest side...
Park, Juneau, Anchorage, Palmer, Whittier, Matanuska Glacier, and on the state ferry boat Kennicott run by the Alaska Marine Highway System. It was produced...
money from Exxon[citation needed], the MV Kennicott joined the system in 1998. New construction since the Kennicott has focused on day boats, which can run...
Dall took a job in Chicago. There he met the famous naturalist Robert Kennicott (1835–1866) at the Chicago Academy of Sciences Museum. In 1865 the Western...
by Chief Engineer E. C. Hawkins and Superintendent Samuel Murchison at Kennicott. The cost of the railway at $25 million was justified because the mines...
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