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.
- Glacier with an elevation of around 1,340 feet (410 metres)
- Description: glacier in the United States
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Latitude
59.10472° or 59° 6′ 17″ north
Longitude
-136.38222° or 136° 22′ 56″ west
Open location code
94F54J39+V4
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Muir Glacier” goes by many names.
Muir glaziarraBasque
Muir GlacierCatalan
Muir GlacierCebuano
繆爾冰河Chinese
MuirgletsjerDutch
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