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Eliot Glacier

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Type
  
Mountain glacier

Terminus
  
Talus

Area
  
164 ha

Length
  
1.5 mi (2.4 km)

Status
  
Retreating

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Location
  
Hood River County, Oregon, United States

Similar
  
Cloud Cap Inn, Cloud Cap Road, Newton Clark Glacier, Cascade Range, Sandy Glacier

Eliot Glacier is a glacier on the northeastern slopes of Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. Researchers have reported that Eliot Glacier covered an area of 395 acres (160 ha) in 2004 but had retreated 680 meters (2,230 ft) since 1901, though that decline was less than all but one other glacier on Mount Hood. The glacier's situation on a northeast slope, its higher altitude accumulation zone close to the summit of Mount Hood and its high level of talus debris may explain its slower retreat.

Map of Eliot Glacier, Oregon 97041, USA

References

Eliot Glacier Wikipedia