Information About

Jefferies Glacier

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 37' 8" N,
141 ° 50' 55" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

McCarthy

Length

30 mi (48.28 km)

Elevation

5899 ft (1798.02 m)

Jefferies Glacier in Detail.

About

Heads at 603700N, 14113500W, flows W to the Tana Glacier just N of the Bagley Icefield, 7 mi. S of Needle Mtn., and 40 mi. N of Cape Yakataga, Chugach Mts.

History

Named by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) field party in 1928 for William "Tomato Bill" Jefferies, a prospector who crossed this area with James Barkley on foot in 1906 or 1907 (Moffit, 1918, p. 77).

Topo Maps

Bering Glacier (1950), Bering Glacier (1951), Bering Glacier (1959), Bering Glacier (1959), Bering Glacier (1959), Bering Glacier (1959), Bering Glacier C-3 (1985), Bering Glacier C-3 SE (2017),

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