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| Keywords: Mendenhall Glacier, with tourists in foreground, ca 1912 (THWAITES 387).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 3 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites PH Coll 247 853<br/>Mendenhall Glacier is located 13 miles from downtown Juneau In the mid-1700s Mendenhall Glacier reached its point of maximum advance and its terminus rested almost 2 5 miles down valley from its present position Mendenhall Glacier started retreating in the mid-1700s because its annual rate of melt began to exceed its annual total accumulation The icefield's snowfall perpetually creates new glacial ice for Mendenhall Glacier and this ice takes 200-250 years to travel from the Juneau Icefield to Mendenhall Lake Water depth at the glacier's terminus is 220 feet Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 1841-1924 served as Superintendent of the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1889 to 1894 A noted scientist Mendenhall also served on the Alaska Boundary Commission that was responsible for surveying the international boundary between Canada and Alaska In 1892 this glacier was renamed to honor Mendenhall Naturalist John Muir first named the glacier Auke Glacier in 1879 after the Aak'w Kwaan of the Tlingit Indians Subjects LCTGM Mendenhall Glacier Alaska ; Glaciers--Alaska; Mendenhall River Alaska ; Rivers--Alaska; Tourists--Alaska depicted place Mendenhall Glacier ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 387 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW370 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Mendenhall Glacier Rivers of Alaska Tourists in Alaska | ||||
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