Muir Glacier

noun

1. a glacier in SE Alaska, flowing SE from Mt. Fairweather into Glacier Bay. About 350 sq. mi. (905 sq. km).

Muir Glacier

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noun

1. a glacier in SE Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains, flowing southeast from Mount Fairweather. Area: about 900 sq km (350 sq miles)

Example Sentences

I might end up at Alaska’s Muir Glacier in 1890 with Mrs. Septima M. Collis, who had this to say upon viewing the massive expanse of ice for the first time from aboard a ship of tourists: “I pray heaven that neither age nor infirmity may ever efface from my memory the sight and the sensation of that moment.”

From Washington Post

The Muir Glacier has now retreated more than 30 miles from the sea up into the mountains.

From Scientific American

In Glacier Bay national park, the Muir Glacier melted 640 meters between 1948 and 2000.

From The Guardian

Within a few years, West Coast steamships were hawking Alaska sightseeing trips to the “frozen Niagara” of the Muir Glacier, a spectacular river of ice — today located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve — discharging massive bergs from its 300-foot-high face.

From New York Times

We motored slowly past a chunk of rock swarming with bald eagles on top and sea lions below, and approached the spot that, in the 1890s, had marked the terminus of Muir Glacier.

From New York Times