Northwest History. Alaska, Glaciers. United States.

Alaska's Air-Conditioning Plant. Alaska's Air-Conditioning Plant No one can adequately describe the thrills you experience when visiting mighty Columbia, the greatest of living galciers to the face of which ships call. One might have seen glacier after glacier, yet not be prepared for the...

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Language:English
Published: 1936
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Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92086
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Summary:Alaska's Air-Conditioning Plant. Alaska's Air-Conditioning Plant No one can adequately describe the thrills you experience when visiting mighty Columbia, the greatest of living galciers to the face of which ships call. One might have seen glacier after glacier, yet not be prepared for the splendor and magnificance of this great ice palisade sweeping grandly down for 80 miles from her huge ice cap, and pushing out to a quiet sea, Columbia forms a solid ice wall four miles wide, reaching to pinnacled heights 300 feet above the water's edge.