Information About

Tebenkof Glacier

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Tebenkof Glacier on The Map

Location

60 ° 41' 1" N,
148 ° 31' 18.001" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Whittier

Length

8 mi (12.87 km)

Elevation

1637 ft (498.96 m)

Tebenkof Glacier in Detail.

About

on E side of Kenai Peninsula, heads at 603830N1483530W, trends NE to its terminus, 2 mi. S of Blackstone Bay, and 7 mi. SE of Whittier, Chugach Mts.

History

Named about 1909 by U. S. Grant, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov. Published by Grant and Higgins (1910, pls. 1, 2), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).