Information About

Logan Glacier

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Logan Glacier on The Map

Location

60 ° 53' 21.998" N,
141 ° 11' 43.001" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

McCarthy

Length

10 mi (16.09 km)

Elevation

3996 ft (1217.98 m)

Logan Glacier in Detail.

About

Heading in Canada on the N slopes of Mount Logan, flowing NW across the Alaska boundary to form the headwaters of the Chitina River, 13 mi. SW of Mount Tittmann and 115 mi. NW of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts.

History

Named in 1912-13 by International Boundary Commission (IBC) because of its nearness to Mount Logan. Mount Logan was named by I. C. Russell in 1890, in honor of Sir William Edmond Logan, "founder and long director of the Geological Survey of Canada," who was born in Montreal and educated in the British Isles. After working for a while in a copper smelting works in Swansea, he became actively interested in geology, especially the coal beds of South Wales. He was director of the Geological Survey of Canada from 1842-69. He was knighted in 1856.