Muir Glacier as seen from the water

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• Subjects: Glaciers > Alaska; Muir Glacier (Alaska); Mount Harris; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/609

Photograph possibly by Frank LaRoche. Caption on image: Muir glacier, Alaska. 105 Muir Glacier heads about 9 miles south of Mount Harris and trends southeast 12 miles to Muir Inlet, 6 miles northwest of Westdahl Point and 77 miles northwest of Hoonah. It was named about 1880 for John Muir (1834-1918), the American naturalist who discovered this glacier on his 1879 trip to Alaska. [Source: Donald Orth. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967.]