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Mount Saint Elias, Icy Bay

Mount Saint Elias is located on the Alaska-Canada boundary in the Saint Elias Range, about 165 miles (266 km) east-southeast of Cordova and 67 miles (108 km) northwest of Yakutat.

Brady Glacier, Taylor Bay

Brady Glacier is situated in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and flows from the Brady Icefield, at an elevation of 11,942 feet (3,640 m) in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains, to Taylor Bay on the north shore of Cross Sound, about 139 miles (224 km) southeast of Yakutat and 32 miles (51 km) west of Gustavus, Alaska.

Tutka River, Kachemak Bay

Tutka River starts from an elevation of about 2800 feet (853 m) on the western flank of the Kenai Mountains and flows generally west to the head of Tutka Bay, a fjord on the southern coast of Kachemak Bay, about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Homer and 15 miles (24 km) east of Seldovia, Alaska.

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Lawrence Glacier, Blackstone Bay

Lawrence Glacier, Blackstone Bay

Lawrence Glacier starts from several cirques situated at the northern extent of the Kenai Mountains at an elevation of roughly 3,000 feet (915 m) and flows generally northwest for 2.4 miles (4 km) to within a few hundred feet of tidewater at the south end of Willard Island in Blackstone Bay, about 84 miles (135 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Whittier, Alaska.

Rendu Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Rendu Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Rendu Glacier starts in the Fairweather Range at an elevation of roughly 4600 feet (1400 m) in British Columbia and flows generally southeast for about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the United States border between Mount Barnard to the southwest and Boundary Peak 159 to the northeast, and then continues for another 12 miles through Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve to Rendu Inlet, about 113 miles (182 km) southeast of Yakutat and 54 miles (87 km) north-northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Pedersen Lagoon, Aialik Bay

Pedersen Lagoon, Aialik Bay

Pedersen Lagoon receives freshwater from proglacial lakes of the Addison and Pedersen glaciers that descend from the Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park on the western shore of Aialik Bay, about 64 miles (103 km) east-northeast of Homer and 19 miles (31 km) south-southwest of Seward, Alaska.

Gilman Glacier, Johns Hopkins Inlet

Gilman Glacier, Johns Hopkins Inlet

Gilman Glacier starts at an elevation of roughly 6,000 feet (1,828 m)in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains and flows generally northwest for 7.5 miles (12 km) to Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Yakutat and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Shoup Glacier, Port Valdez

Shoup Glacier, Port Valdez

Shoup Glacier starts at an elevation of roughly 6,800 feet (2,073 m) in the Chugach Mountains between Mount Shouplina to the west and Mount Logan to the east, and flows 16 miles (26 km) generally south-southwest to Shoup Bay on the northwest shore of Port Valdez in Prince William Sound, about 74 miles (119 km) east-northeast of Whittier and 9 miles (15 km) west of Valdez, Alaska.

Dinglestadt Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park

Dinglestadt Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park

Dinglestadt Glacier has two land terminating lobes that straddle a watershed divide in the Kenai Mountains, with a minor lobe descending southeast for 4 miles (6 km) from an elevation of roughly 3300 feet (1006 m) to a tidal delta on the western shore of McCarty Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 44 miles (71 km) south-southwest of Seward and 42 miles (68 km) east of Homer, Alaska.

McBride Glacier, Muir Inlet

McBride Glacier, Muir Inlet

McBride Glacier starts from a series of cirques at elevations near 5500 feet (1676 m) on the southern flank of the Takhinsha Mountains in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and flows generally south for roughly 10 miles (16 km) to McBride Inlet which connects to Muir Inlet, about 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Gustavus and 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Haines, Alaska.

Bering River, Controller Bay

Bering River, Controller Bay

Bering River starts from a series of ice-marginal lakes and streams draining from the Martin River, Steller, and Bering glaciers, and flows generally south-southwest for 18 miles ( km) to Controller Bay on the Gulf of Alaska, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Cape Yakutaga and 58 miles (94 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

Bear Glacier, Aialik Peninsula

Bear Glacier, Aialik Peninsula

Bear Glacier starts from an elevation of roughly 4,000 feet (1,219 m) on the eastern flank of the Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park and descends generally southeast for 17 miles (27 km) to a proglacial lake dammed by a terminal moraine between Bear Glacier Point on the Aialik Peninsula to the south and Callisto Head to the north, about 72 miles (116 km) east-northeast of Homer and 13 miles (21 km) south of Seward, Alaska.

Margerie Glacier, Tarr Inlet

Margerie Glacier, Tarr Inlet

Margerie Glacier starts at an elevation of 9,860 feet (3,005 m) on the international border of the United States and Canada between Mount Root to the north and Mount Fairweather to the south and flows generally east for 21 miles (34 km) to tidewater at Tarr Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 101 miles (163 km) southeast of Yakutat and 66 miles (107 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

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