EARTHSC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve, Byrd Polar And Climate Research Center, Grand Pacific Glacier
27 Sep 2017
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Cook named mount fairweather (obviously on an unusually sunny day): 1794 george vancouver sailed along the alaskan coast. Glacier bay did not exist, it was filled by a glacial ice sheet several miles wide and 1000"s of feet thick. Since 1794 the glacial ice has shrunk back over 65 miles: 1867 alaska was purchased from imperial russia by a treaty negotiated by u. s. Secretary of state william seward for . 2 million dollars: 1879 the naturalist john muir studied the glaciers, which had by then already retreated. It was the third site designed in the united states (after mesa verde and yellowstone). In southeastern alaska, at the upper end of the alaskan peninsula: 3,283,168 acres or 5130 square miles, glacier bay is surrounded by the mountains of alaska and british columbia, canada. It is called the mountain kingdom of north america. Wrangell-saint elias mountains, chugach, chilkat, takhinsha, alsek, fairweather, and.
