Type Mountain glacier Status Retreating | Terminus Grewingk Creek Length 20,921 m | |
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Location Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, U.S. Area 19,200 acres (77.699 km) Similar Kenai Mountains, Harding Icefield, Alaska Islands & Ocean Vi, Bishops Beach, Salty Dawg Saloon | ||
Grewingk Glacier is a 13-mile-long (21 km) glacier located in the Kenai Mountains, near Kachemak Bay, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at 59°34′51″N 150°57′01″W and trends northwest to 59°36′11″N 151°07′39″W, 15 miles (24 km) east-southeast of Homer.
Map of Grewingk Glacier, Alaska 99603, USA
It was named in 1880 by W. H. Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for the Baltic German geologist Constantin Grewingk.
References
Grewingk Glacier Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA