Type Mountain glacier Status retreating | Terminus sealevel Length 27,359 m | |
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Location Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, U.S. Similar Muir Glacier, Brady Glacier, McCarty Glacier, Johns Hopkins Glacier, Lamplugh Glacier | ||
Riggs Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the southern slope of the Takhinsha Mountains, 6 km (4 mi) southeast of Mount Harris and flows south-southeast to the head of Muir Inlet, 69 km (43 mi) southwest of Skagway.
Map of Riggs Glacier, Alaska 99826, USA
It was named by the American Geographical Society in 1947 for Thomas Riggs, Jr., Governor of Alaska from 1918 to 1921.
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