57 ° 28' 31.001" N,
132 ° 42' 11.999" W
Hoonah-Angoon (CA)
15 mi (24.14 km)
2808 ft (855.88 m)
Dawes Glacier is usually accessed on Celebrity, Disney, Princess, and Royal Caribbean cruises. Though there are other means of reaching it from Juneau.
Aboutheads at Alaska-Canada boundary, trends NW to Endicott Arm, 96 mi. NW of Sitka, Coast Mts. 15 miles long.
Dawes Glacier is a tidewater glacier with a face hundreds of feet tall. Its icebergs provide breeding and whelping grounds harbor seals.
HistoryNamed in 1891 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Henry Laurens Dawes, 1816-1903, lawyer and statesman from Massachusetts. The glacier was originally called "Young Glacier" in 1880 by John Muir for Reverend S. Hall Young, his companion (Young, 1915, p. 147).
Pictures of, from, or near Dawes Glacier.
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Long-tailed Duck, Common Merganser, Canada Goose, Red-necked Phalarope, Northern Pintail, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Tree Swallow, Northern Shoveler, Blue-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Black-legged Kittiwake, American Crow, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Marbled Murrelet, Herring Gull, Mallard, Green-winged Teal, Harlequin Duck, Bufflehead, Vaux's Swift, Spotted Sandpiper, Pigeon Guillemot, Arctic Tern, Common Raven, Violet-green Swallow, Hermit Thrush, Rufous Hummingbird, Black Oystercatcher, Bonaparte's Gull, Red-throated Loon, Pacific Loon, Yellow-billed Loon, Pelagic Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Barn Swallow, Pacific Wren
