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Hubbard Glacier

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Hubbard Glacier, SE Alaska, largest tidewater glacier in North America, on Disenchantment Bay at head of Yakutat Bay, at the northern end of the Alaskan panhandle. Extending 76 mi (122 km) from Mt. Logan in Yukon Territory, the glacier's face is more than 6 mi (9.6 km) across and some 300 ft (90 m) high. It has twice blocked (1986, 2002) the mouth of Russell Fjord, making it a lake as high as 90 ft (27 m) above sea level.
Hubbard Glacier [′həb·ərd ′glā·shər]
(geography)
A valley glacier which reaches tidewater from a source area of Mount St. Elias of Alaska and the Yukon.


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Sights from the water might include lighthouses perched on rocky promontories, the mists and waterfalls of narrow Tracy Arm, or the majesty of Hubbard Glacier.
Other water trips include white-water rafting in the Grand Canyon, and sea kayaking along Alaska's Hubbard Glacier.
When the Hubbard Glacier galloped towards the Gulf of Alaska earlier this year, scientific understanding of the phenomenon didn't exactly surge forward as well, but the event did offer scientists a rare chance to study the mechanics of a glacial surge and its effects on local ecology and geology.
 
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