• Thumbnail for Mendenhall Glacier
    Mendenhall Glacier (in Tlingit language “Sít”) is a glacier about 13.6 miles (21.9 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from...
    15 KB (1,500 words) - 14:23, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mendenhall Valley, Juneau
    along Fritz Cove and Auke Bay back to the Mendenhall Glacier as well as Mendenhall Lake and the Mendenhall River, which for the most part drains the Valley...
    3 KB (348 words) - 23:59, 2 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
    and Canada. The Mendenhall Valley and Glacier in Juneau, Alaska was named for him in 1892. Mendenhall invented the portable Mendenhall Gravimeter in 1890...
    19 KB (1,836 words) - 04:34, 14 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of glaciers in the United States
    Meares Glacier - Prince William Sound Mendenhall Glacier Miles Glacier Morse Glacier - Glacier Bay Muir Glacier - Glacier Bay Muldrow Glacier - Alaska...
    26 KB (2,388 words) - 22:41, 9 February 2024
  • Mendenhall may refer to: Mendenhall (surname) Mendenhall (Minoll), Wiltshire, England Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, Alaska Mendenhall Lake, near Juneau...
    871 bytes (116 words) - 19:21, 18 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Juneau Icefield
    source of many glaciers including the Mendenhall Glacier and the Taku Glacier. The icefield is home to over 40 large valley glaciers and 100 smaller...
    5 KB (568 words) - 17:32, 4 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nugget Falls
    also known as Nugget Creek Falls or Mendenhall Glacier Falls, is a waterfall downstream of the Nugget Glacier, at the base of Bullard Mountain, in the...
    3 KB (218 words) - 18:53, 7 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Glacier terminus
    Antarctic Peninsula glacier's terminus Terminal moraine Boulder Glacier Mendenhall Glacier Perito Moreno Glacier "All About Glaciers - Glacier Terminus". National...
    4 KB (337 words) - 12:50, 17 September 2023
  • Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni, a type of gray wolf) who lived around Mendenhall Glacier between 2003 and 2009. He interacted more or less successfully with...
    4 KB (238 words) - 06:05, 22 November 2023
  • The river begins at the Mendenhall Lake, at the base of the Mendenhall Glacier. The Mendenhall is about six miles (9 kilometers) long, one mile (1.6 km)...
    3 KB (319 words) - 16:19, 6 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for McGinnis Mountain
    the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated near the toe of the Mendenhall Glacier, within Tongass National Forest, 11 mi (18 km) north-northwest of...
    4 KB (416 words) - 06:55, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mendenhall Lake
    Mendenhall Lake is a proglacial lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, three miles (4.8 km) north of the Juneau Airport...
    3 KB (143 words) - 00:36, 28 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Juneau, Alaska
    30 glaciers flow; two of them, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Lemon Creek Glacier, are visible from the local road system. The Mendenhall Glacier has...
    92 KB (7,991 words) - 15:31, 18 April 2024
  • Mount Robson in Canada. In 2018, he was killed in an avalanche on the Mendenhall Towers in Alaska. In 2021, a documentary film called The Alpinist was...
    13 KB (1,313 words) - 01:37, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Retreat of glaciers since 1850
    monitored outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield since 1946. On the west side of the ice field, the terminus of the Mendenhall Glacier, which flows into...
    139 KB (16,421 words) - 14:01, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Exit Glacier
    Exit Glacier is especially notable for being a drive up glacier (similar to the Mendenhall Glacier of Juneau). A spur road off the Seward Highway leads to...
    10 KB (785 words) - 13:28, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joan Lunden
    risks in her role as host. She climbed and rappelled Alaska's famed Mendenhall Glacier and bungee-jumped off a 143-foot bridge and paraglided off a 2,000-foot...
    19 KB (1,884 words) - 04:23, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juneau Mountain Rescue
    Mountain. September 1993. Tom H., search of Mendenhall Glacier, West Glacier Trail. June 1993. Found body in glacier three years later. Alex Iliev, avalanche...
    15 KB (1,707 words) - 18:16, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yazoo stream
    of the Montana Creek valley during the recent Little Ice Age. The Mendenhall Glacier carved out a wide floodplain that is domed in the center. High valley...
    8 KB (808 words) - 00:19, 30 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jökulhlaup
    Jökulhlaup (redirect from Glacier burst)
    through the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. On 7 February 2021, part of Nanda Devi Glacier broke away in the 2021 Uttarakhand glacier burst, triggering...
    20 KB (2,333 words) - 10:23, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Davidson Glacier
    mountains, becoming a valley glacier, and created its very own glacial lake in the glacier's moraine (similar to the Mendenhall Glacier and lake) about one mile...
    2 KB (158 words) - 02:31, 5 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
    Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the...
    44 KB (4,649 words) - 00:50, 1 April 2024
  • passengers was mountaineer Edmund Hillary, whom she flew to Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier in 1963. The business still operates, as NorthStar Helicopters. In...
    6 KB (536 words) - 14:01, 6 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pamir Mountains
    Mountains, Central Asia". Water. 9 (6): 422. doi:10.3390/w9060422. "Mendenhall Glacier Facts" (PDF). University of Alaska Southeast. Juneau, Alaska, US:...
    32 KB (3,071 words) - 07:10, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portage Glacier
    6 km (4 mi) west of Whittier. Portage Glacier was a local name first recorded in 1898 by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall of the United States Coast and Geodetic...
    4 KB (314 words) - 16:17, 6 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tracy Arm
    Tracy Arm (redirect from Sawyer Glacier)
    the most recent glaciated period, both fjords were filled with active glaciers. The most common access is by boat using Stephens Passage and entering...
    6 KB (574 words) - 20:15, 25 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bullard Mountain
    Alaska. The peak is situated immediately east of the terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, within Tongass National Forest, 9 mi (14 km) north-northwest of Juneau...
    5 KB (383 words) - 08:25, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
    extreme minimum temperature of −42.6 °F (−41.4 °C). Perennial snowfields and glaciers, which are crucial to various ecosystems within the park, are decreasing...
    22 KB (2,355 words) - 06:33, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gastineau Channel
    of the Gastineau Channel by silty sediment produced by the Mendenhall Glacier and Mendenhall River. If current trends continue, Gastineau Channel may eventually...
    4 KB (443 words) - 00:01, 3 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tongass National Forest
    programs at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau and the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center in Ketchikan. The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center...
    40 KB (4,591 words) - 01:37, 26 November 2023