Type Valley glacier Status Retreating | Terminus Moraine/lake Area 7.4 km² | |
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Location Haines Borough, Alaska, U.S. Similar Reid Falls, Skagway Museum, Jewell Gardens, White Pass, White Pass and Yukon Route | ||
The Davidson Glacier is a large valley glacier near Haines, Alaska that finds its source in the Chilkat Range.
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Map of Davidson Glacier, Alaska 99827, USA
HistoryEdit
The Davidson Glacier was originally discovered by 1867 and was recounted by John Muir in his famous travels in and around Glacier Bay in 1879. The glacier was, at that time, a glacier that nearly reached tidewater. It has since receded into the mountains and created its very own glacial lake in the glacier's moraine (similar to the Mendenhall Glacier and lake) about one mile inland from the Chilkat Inlet.
Current statusEdit
Currently, the Davidson Glacier serves as a tourist attraction for Haines. While not actually located on the Chilkat Peninsula, tour operators boat or kayak tourists over to the glacier and then drive or hike them from the shore to the glacier on a road constructed for tourists' use.