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Agassiz Glacier

The 33rd longest glacier in the world

24.1 km · Length

Agassiz Glacier is a valley glacier in the Saint Elias Mountains in southern Alaska (USA) and to a lesser extent on to Canadian territory. The glacier was named by William Libbey, a member of The New York Times expedition in 1886, after Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), a Swiss-American naturalist.

Glacier data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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