Knik Glacier
The Knik Glacier is an ice field located 50 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska on the northern end of the Chugach Mountains. The ice field averages over 25 miles long and over 5 miles across, making it one of the largest glaciers in southcentral Alaska.
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Latitude
61.3181° or 61° 19′ 5″ north
Longitude
-148.15332° or 148° 9′ 12″ west
Open location code
93HH8R9W+6M
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural = glacier
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Romanian—“Knik Glacier” goes by many names.
Knik-gleccserHungarian
Ghiacciaio KnikItalian
Knika ledājsLatvian
ghețarul KnikRomanian
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