Hubbard Glacier Up Close - Alaska

by Bruce Friedman

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Hubbard Glacier Up Close - Alaska

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Bruce Friedman

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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Hubbard Glacier right before big chunk fell off and created big enough wave to rock the cruise ship.

Hubbard Glacier is a glacier located in eastern Alaska and part of Canada.

The longest source for Hubbard Glacier originates 76 mi from its snout and is located at about 61°00′N 140°09′W, approximately 5 mi west of Mount Walsh with an altitude around 11,000 feet. A shorter tributary glacier begins at the easternmost summit on the Mount Logan ridge at about 18,300 feet at about 60°35′0″N 140°22′40″W.

Before it reaches the sea, Hubbard is joined by the Valerie Glacier to the west, which, through forward surges of its own ice, has contributed to the advance of the ice flow that experts believe will eventually dam the Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay waters.

The Hubbard Glacier ice margin has continued to advance for about a century. It takes about 400 years for ice to traverse the length of the glacier, meaning that the ice at the foot of the glacier is about 400 years old. The glacier routinely calves off icebergs the size of a ten-story building. Where the glacier meets the shore, most of the ice is below the waterline, and newly calved icebergs can shoot up quite dramatically, so that ships must keep their distance from it as they ply their way up and down the coast.

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August 21st, 2013

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