Casement Glacier

Casement Glacier
Casement Glacier centered.
(Mount Tlingit Ankawoo left, Mount Dech right)
Map showing the location of Casement Glacier
Map showing the location of Casement Glacier
Casement Glacier
TypeMountain glacier
LocationHoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates59°02′N 135°56′W / 59.033°N 135.933°W / 59.033; -135.933
Length14 miles (23 km) [1]
TerminusSea level
StatusRetreating[2]
Map

Casement Glacier is a 14 miles (23 km) long glacier in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska (US).[3] It was named in 1890 by Harry Fielding Reid in honour of R.L. Casement, member of Reid expedition on SS George W. Elder.[4] Back then Casement Glacier was first north tributary of Muir Glacier and not yet completely detached one.[5]

  1. ^ "Casement Glacier". Alaska Guide.
  2. ^ "SVS: Changes in Glacier Bay: Casement Glacier". svs.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Casement Glacier
  4. ^ "Glacier Bay NP and Pres: Land Reborn: A History of Administration and Visitor Use in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (Chapter II)". www.nps.gov.
  5. ^ U.S. Department of Interior GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA by Marcus Baker, BULLETIN of the UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY No. 187 SERIES F, GEOGRAPHY, 27 1902, page 117