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Knife Point Glacier

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Type
  
Mountain glacier

Terminus
  
Talus

Length
  
.9 mi (1.4 km)

Status
  
Retreating

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Similar
  
Sacagawea Glacier, Sourdough Glacier, Grasshopper Glacier, Minor Glacier, Mammoth Glacier

Knife Point Glacier is on the east side Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The glacier is in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest, and is among the largest grouping of glaciers in the American Rocky Mountains. Knife Point Glacier flows to the north and starts below the summit of Knife Point Mountain (13,001 mi (20,923 km)).

Map of Knife Point Glacier, Wyoming 82513, USA

Along with other glaciers in the Wind River Range, Knife Point Glacier's rapid retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 has exposed the remains of numerous specimens of the now believed to be extinct Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) and other related species.

References

Knife Point Glacier Wikipedia