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Knik Glacier

The Knik Glacier is an ice field located 50 miles east of on the northern end of the . The ice field averages over 25 miles long and over 5 miles across, making it one of the largest glaciers in .
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Knik Glacier

Latitude
61.3181° or 61° 19′ 5″ north
Longitude
-148.15332° or 148° 9′ 12″ west
Elevation
463 feet (141 metres)
Open location code
93HH8R9W+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 159670445
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­glacier
Geo­Names ID
5866525
Wiki­data ID
Q1777163
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Satellite Map

Discover Knik Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Romanian—“Knik Glacier” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مثلجة كنيك”
  • Bulgarian: “Кник”
  • Catalan: “glacera Knik”
  • Czech: “Knik”
  • French: “glacier Knik”
  • French: “Glacier Knik”
  • French: “Knik Glacier”
  • German: “Knik-Gletscher”
  • Hungarian: “Knik-gleccser”
  • Italian: “Ghiacciaio Knik”
  • Latvian: “Knika ledājs”
  • Romanian: “ghețarul Knik”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Knik Glacier”. Photo: McStyles, Public domain.