Malaspina Glacier
The Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is the largest piedmont glacier in the world. Situated at the head of the Alaska Panhandle, it is about 65 km wide and 45 km long, with an area of some 3,900 km2, approximately the same size as the state of Rhode Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Malaspina Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,575 feet
- Description: glacier in Alaska, USA
- Categories: piedmont glacier and landform
- Location: Yakutat, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
59.93635° or 59° 56′ 11″ northLongitude
-140.54951° or 140° 32′ 58″ westElevation
1,575 feet (480 metres)Open location code
93FXWFP2+G5OpenStreetMap ID
way 929436282OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
Discover Malaspina Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Malaspina Glacier” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “glacera de Malaspina”
- Catalan: “Glacera de Malaspina”
- Chinese: “马拉斯皮纳冰川”
- Finnish: “Malaspinan jäätikkö”
- French: “glacier Malaspina”
- French: “Glacier Malaspina”
- Georgian: “მალასპინა”
- German: “Malaspinagletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון מלספינה”
- Kirghiz: “Маласпина”
- Persian: “یخچال مالاسپینا”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Malaspina”
- Russian: “Маласпина (ледник)”
- Russian: “Маласпина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malaspina (glečer)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malaspina”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Malaspina”
- Swedish: “Malaspinaglaciären”
- Turkish: “Malaspina Buzulu”
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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 “Malaspina Glacier”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.