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Agassiz Glacier (Kerguelen)
Agassiz Glacier may refer to: *Agassiz Glacier (Alaska) *Agassiz Glacier (Montana) *Agassiz Glacier (New Zealand) The Agassiz Glacier is located near the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. The Agassiz Glacier is a tributary of the larger Franz Josef Glacier, and is itself fed by the Chamberlin Snowfield and the Davis Snowfield. It is named after Loui ... See also * Agassiz Ice Cap {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agassiz Glacier (Alaska)
__NOTOC__ Agassiz Glacier is a valley glacier in the Saint Elias Mountains in southern Alaska (USA) and to a lesser extent on to Canadian territory. Glacier was named by William Libbey, a member of the New York Times expedition in 1886, after Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), a Swiss-American naturalist. Geography The agglomeration of the Agassiz Glacier is located on the southern flank of Mount Malaspina north of the Canada–United States border. The 25 km long glacier is fed by the Newton Glacier. The three kilometres-wide glacier flows initially in a southwesterly direction, later in a south-easterly direction. From the west, the Libbey Glacier meets the Agassiz Glacier. This finally merges into the Malaspina Glacier, which finally flows into the Gulf of Alaska The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: ''Yéil T'ooch’'') is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agassiz Glacier (Montana)
Agassiz Glacier is in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It is named after Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American glaciologist. The glacier is situated in a cirque to the southeast of Kintla Peak west of the Continental Divide. Agassiz Glacier is one of several glaciers that have been selected for monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey's Glacier Monitoring Research program, which is researching changes to the mass balance of glaciers in and surrounding Glacier National Park. The glacier is being monitored using remote sensing equipment and repeat photography, where images of the glacier are taken from identical locations periodically. Tree ring samples have also been used previously to determine the extent of glacier retreat. Between 1966 and 2005, Agassiz Glacier lost a third of its surface area. See also *List of glaciers in the United States *Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.) There are at least 35 named glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.). At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agassiz Glacier (New Zealand)
The Agassiz Glacier is located near the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. The Agassiz Glacier is a tributary of the larger Franz Josef Glacier, and is itself fed by the Chamberlin Snowfield and the Davis Snowfield. It is named after Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ..., a Swiss-American glaciologist, and was discovered and named by the German geologist, Sir Johann "Julius" von Haast. In 2015, the glacier was informally 'unnamed' as part of a worldwide campaign to disassociate Agassiz's name from various geographic features and, in this instance, to replace it with a relevant Māori name. References External links Agassiz Glacier on NZ Topo MapAgassiz Glacier on Mapcarta.com Glaciers of New Zealand Westland Tai Poutini National Park [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |