Information About

Loomis Glacier

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Loomis Glacier on The Map

Location

58 ° 56' 30.001" N,
136 ° 25' 30" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Haines

Length

2.2 mi (3.54 km)

Elevation

1877 ft (572.11 m)

Loomis Glacier in Detail.

About

in Glacier Bay National Monument, heads NE of Emerson Peaks, flows N to Plateau Glacier, 68 mi. NW of Hoonah, St. Elias Mts.

History

Named by members of the American Geographical Society's Glacier Bay Expedition of 1941 (Field, 1947, map) for Henry B. Loomis, a companion of John Muir on his trip to the Muir Glacier in 1890.