Information About

Dawes Glacier

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Dawes Glacier on The Map

Location

57 ° 28' 31.001" N,
132 ° 42' 11.999" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Petersburg

Length

15 mi (24.14 km)

Elevation

2808 ft (855.88 m)

Dawes Glacier in Detail.

Getting There

Dawes Glacier is usually accessed on Celebrity, Disney, Princess, and Royal Caribbean cruises. Though there are other means of reaching it from Juneau.

About

heads 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.

History

Named 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).

Dawes Glacier Gallery

Pictures of, from, or near Dawes Glacier.

Places Near Dawes Glacier
Glaciers:

Dawes Glacier, South Sawyer Glacier,

Mountains:

Boundary Peak 74, Boundary Peak 75, Hump Knoll,