Everything about Muir Glacier totally explained
Muir Glacier is a
tidewater glacier in
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the
U.S. state of
Alaska. It is located at, and is about 3 km (2 miles) wide. It calves (or sheds)
icebergs from a wall of ice 60 m (200 feet) tall.
Much of the Muir Glacier has already melted away due to
global warming; between 1941 and 2004 the glacier retreated more than twelve kilometers (seven miles) and thinned by over 800 meters (2625 feet). Ocean water has filled the valley replacing the ice.
The glacier is named after
John Muir, the naturalist,
who visited the area and wrote about it, generating interest in the area and in its preservation. His first two visits were in
1878 and
1880, at age 41. During the visits, he sent an account of his visits in installments to the
San Francisco Bulletin. Later, he collected and edited these installments in a book,
Travels in Alaska, published in
1915, the year he died.
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