Casement Glacier
Casement Glacier centered.
(Mount Tlingit Ankawoo left, Mount Dech right)
Map showing the location of Casement Glacier
Map showing the location of Casement Glacier
Casement Glacier
TypeMountain glacier
LocationHoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates59°02′N 135°56′W / 59.033°N 135.933°W / 59.033; -135.933
Length14 miles (23 km) [1]
TerminusSea level
StatusRetreating[2]

Casement Glacier is a 14 miles (23 km) long glacier in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska (USA).[3] It was named in 1890 by Harry Fielding Reid in honour of R.L. Casement, member of Reid expedition on SS George W. Elder.[4] Back then Casement Glacier was first north tributary of Muir Glacier and not yet completely detached one.[5]

Geography

The glacier has its feeding area at 1200 m altitude on the southern flank of the Takhinsha Mountains in the Alsek Ranges.[6] There it borders the Davidson Glacier, which in contrast flows east to the Lynn Canal. The Casement glacier, with an average width of 1.8 km, flows in predominantly south-southwest direction and ends at about 300 m. The 13 km long outflow flows into the Adams Inlet, an eastern side bay of the Muir Inlet.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Casement Glacier". Alaska Guide.
  2. ↑ "SVS: Changes in Glacier Bay: Casement Glacier". svs.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  3. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Casement Glacier
  4. ↑ "Glacier Bay NP and Pres: Land Reborn: A History of Administration and Visitor Use in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (Chapter II)". www.nps.gov.
  5. ↑ U.S. Department of Interior GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA by Marcus Baker, BULLETIN of the UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY No. 187 SERIES F, GEOGRAPHY, 27 1902, page 117
  6. ↑ Casement Glacier MapCarta.

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