Muir Glacier
Muir Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is currently about 0.7 km wide at the terminus. As recently as the mid-1980s the glacier was a tidewater glacier and calved icebergs from a wall of ice 90 m tall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eric E Castro, CC BY 2.0.
Muir Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,342 feet
- Description: glacier in the United States
- Categories: valley glacier and landform
- Location: Hoonah-Angoon, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Muir Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Muir Glacier” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Muir glaziarra”
- Catalan: “Muir Glacier”
- Cebuano: “Muir Glacier”
- Chinese: “繆爾冰河”
- Dutch: “Muirgletsjer”
- French: “glacier Muir”
- French: “Glacier Muir”
- German: “Muir-Gletscher”
- Japanese: “ミューア氷河”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Muir”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Muir”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Muir Glacier”. Photo: LCGS Russ, CC BY 3.0.