 Mendenhall Glacier and frozen Mendenhall Lake on a clear winter day Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 12 miles (19 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 714 KB) View of Mendenhall Glacier in wintertime File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Mendenhall Glacier ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 714 KB) View of Mendenhall Glacier in wintertime File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Mendenhall Glacier ...
A glacier is a large, persistent body of ice, formed largely of compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity. ...
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Location in Juneau City and Borough, Alaska Coordinates: Country United States State Alaska Borough Juneau City and Borough Founded 1881 Incorporated 1890 - Mayor Bruce Botelho Area - City 3,255. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area Ranked 1st - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²) - Width 808 miles (1,300 km) - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km) - % water 13. ...
 Mendenhall Glacier and Lake Originally known as Sitaantaagu ("the Glacier Behind the Town") or Aak'wtaaksit ("the Glacier Behind the Little Lake") by the Tlingits, the glacier was named Auke (Auk) Glacier by naturalist John Muir for the Tlingit Auk Kwaan (or Aak'w Kwaan) band 1879. It was later renamed in honor of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1889–1894) in 1892. It extends from the Juneau Icefield, its source, to Mendenhall Lake and ultimately the Mendenhall River. Mendenhall Glacier and Lake - August 15, 2004 I took this picture on a recent trip back to Juneau and release it to the Public Domain. ...
Mendenhall Glacier and Lake - August 15, 2004 I took this picture on a recent trip back to Juneau and release it to the Public Domain. ...
John Muir appears on the California quarter John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. ...
A Tlingit totem pole in Ketchikan ca. ...
1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist. ...
The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast. ...
Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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The Juneau Icefield or Juneau Icecap is an ice field located just north of Juneau, Alaska and continues north through the border with British Columbia and the fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere[1]. View of the Juneau Icefield. ...
Mendenhall Lake is a lake in the Mendenhall Valley in the Juneau City and Borough and also the terminus of the famous drive-up Mendenhall Glacier. ...
The Mendenhall River is an Alaskan river north of Juneau. ...
The Juneau Icefield Research Program has monitored the outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield since 1946, including Mendenhall Glacier. From 1948–2005 the terminus of the glacier, which flows into suburban Juneau, has retreated 1,900 feet (580 m). The glacier has also receded 1.75 miles (2.8 km) since 1910, when Mendenhall Lake was created, and over 2.5 miles (4.0 km) since 1700. The end of the glacier currently has limited crevassing a negative glacier mass balance and will continue to retreat in the forseeable future. Global glacial mass balance in the last fifty years, reported to the WGMS and NSIDC. The downward trend in the late 1980s is symptomatic of the increased rate and number of retreating glaciers. ...
Given that average yearly temperatures are currently increasing, and the outlook is for this trend to continue, it is actually possible that the glacier might experience a period of stabilization or slight advance during its retreating march. This is due to the fact that increasing amounts of warm, moist air will be carried up to the head of the icefield, where colder ambient temperatures will cause it to precipitate as snow. The increased amount of snow will feed the icefield, possibly enough to offset the continually increasing melting experienced at the glacier's terminus. However, this interesting phenomenon will fade away if temperatures continue to climb, since the head of the glacier will no longer have cold enough ambient temperatures to cause snow to precipitate. A glacial terminus Satellite view of changing glacier termini in the Bhutan-Himalaya. ...
 Closer view of the glacier in winter The United States Forest Service administers the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center as part of Tongass National Forest. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x832, 744 KB) Closer view of Mendenhall Glacier in wintertime. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x832, 744 KB) Closer view of Mendenhall Glacier in wintertime. ...
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See also Lateral moraine on a glacier joining the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ...
This is a list of glaciers: Adams Glacier Vatnajokull Iceland Agassiz Icecap - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada Aletsch Glacier - Swiss Alps, largest in Alps Angel Glacier - Cavell Meadows, Jasper National Park, Canada Antarctica -Continental glacier Athabasca Glacier - Canadian Rockies Aurora Glacier - Glacier Bay, Alaska Austfonna - Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Barnard Glacier - Alaska Beardmore...
Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park (US) showing recession since 1850 of 1. ...
External links - Mendenhall Glacier, Tongass National Forest
- Terminus Behvaior of Juneau Icefield Glaciers 1948-2005
 Mendenhall Lake and Glacier from the Visitor's Center |
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