Glacier River
The Glacier River is a river 12 miles northwest of Whittier near the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. It rises in a remote valley from a glacial meltwater lake from Twentymile glacier and flows out into a large, wide valley where it receives the water of the Carmen River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of Twentymile River in Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Placer River”
Glacier River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Anchorage, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Portuguese—“Glacier River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Glacier”
- Cebuano: “Glacier River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Alaska, Anchorage Municipality)”
- Cebuano: “Glacier River”
- German: “Glacier River”
- Portuguese: “Rio Glacier”
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