Information About

Dartmouth Glacier

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 10' 10.999" N,
147 ° 37' 4.001" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Glacier View

Length

3 mi (4.83 km)

Elevation

3176 ft (968.04 m)

Dartmouth Glacier in Detail.

About

heads SW of Mount Castner, trends SW to its terminus at head of Coghill River, 47 mi. W of Valdez, Chugach Mts. 3.4 miles long.

History

Name reported in 1908 by Grant and Higgins (1910, pl. 2), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Presumably named for Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., founded in 1769.

Topo Maps

Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage A-2 (1960), Anchorage A-2 (1960), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1979), Anchorage A-2 NW (2013),

Places Near Dartmouth Glacier

Bays:

Cedar Bay, Harvard Arm, Jonah Bay, Miners Bay, Siwash Bay, Unakwik Inlet, Wells Bay, Yale Arm, Yale Arm College Fiord,

Capes:

College Point,

Glaciers:

Baby Glacier, Baltimore Glacier, Brilliant Glacier, Bryn Mawr Glacier, Dartmouth Glacier, Downer Glacier, Eliot Glacier, Lafayette Glacier, Lowell Glacier, Meares Glacier, Muth Glacier, Radcliffe Glacier, Ranney Glacier, Smith Glacier, Williams Glacier, Yale Glacier,

Islands:

Siwash Island,

Lakes:

Coghill Lake, Miners Lake,

Mountains:

Mount Castner, Mount Grosvenor, Unakwik Peak,

Peaks:

Ridges:

Rivers:

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