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]
Photograph of Muir Glacier by Frank La Roche c. 1897Another La Roche photo of the glacier, this one showing "black ice"
The glacier is named after Scottish-born naturalist John Muir,[1] who traveled around the area and wrote about it, generating interest in the local environment and in its preservation. His first two visits were in 1879 (at age 41) and 1880. During the visits, he sent an account of his visits in installments to the San Francisco Bulletin. Later, he collected and edited these installments in a book, Travels in Alaska, published in 1915, the year after he died.
^ abScheffel, Richard L; Wernert, Susan J (1980). Natural Wonders of the World. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association. p. 259. ISBN 0-89577-087-3.
MuirGlacier 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...
formed where the glaciers have dammed the heads of valleys. Preglacial forests are found east of Goose Cove and on the east side of Muir Inlet. According...
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H. (2005). Kayaking the Inside Passage: A Paddler's Guide from Olympia, Washington to MuirGlacier, Alaska. Countryman Press. ISBN 978-0-88150-642-6....
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Aakwtaaksit, by the Tlingit. The glacier was named Auke (Auk) Glacier by naturalist John Muir for the Tlingit Auk Kwaan (or Aak'w Kwaan) band in 1879. In...
eastern side bay of the Muir Inlet. List of glaciers "Casement Glacier". Alaska Guide. "SVS: Changes in Glacier Bay: Casement Glacier". svs.gsfc.nasa.gov...
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then hiking on the Panorama Trail from Glacier Point down to the top of the Mist Trail at Nevada Fall. The John Muir Trail starts at the same trailhead as...
Haines Borough and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. It also separates Chilkat Inlet and Lynn Canal from Muir Inlet in Glacier Bay. The northern...
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each year, about 90% via routes from Camp Muir on the southeast flank, and most of the rest ascend Emmons Glacier via Camp Schurman on the northeast. Climbing...
and reproductions of subjects such as Mount Hood, Yellowstone Falls, MuirGlacier, and San Francisco Bay. Barchus, who had won medals at Mechanics Fairs...
colors; however, it burrows into the glacier to avoid strong sunlight. This species was first reported from MuirGlacier in Alaska. Carlo Emery named it solifugus...
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