La Perouse Glacier, ca. 1912

Caption on image: LaPerouse Gla., Alaska PH Coll 247.432 With its almost perpendicular 200-300' face, La Perouse Glacier is an outstanding landmark along the Glacier Bay coast. It is unique along the North Pacific coast as the only glacier to reach the open ocean. (All other tidewater glaciers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940
Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives Division
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1912
Subjects:
La Perouse Glacier (Alaska)
Glaciers > Alaska
Glacier Bay (Alaska)
Glacier Bay
Pacific
glacier
glaciers
Tidewater
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/thwaites/id/143
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Summary:Caption on image: LaPerouse Gla., Alaska PH Coll 247.432 With its almost perpendicular 200-300' face, La Perouse Glacier is an outstanding landmark along the Glacier Bay coast. It is unique along the North Pacific coast as the only glacier to reach the open ocean. (All other tidewater glaciers are in protected bays.) This is an active glacier: in some years, like 1997, advancing into the ocean, while just a year earlier receding enough to allow foot passage across the front at low tide.

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