Information About

Bering Lobe

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 13' 30" N,
143 ° 23' 44.999" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

McCarthy

Elevation

951 ft (289.86 m)

Bering Lobe in Detail.

About

A large, expanded terminal lobe of clean ice at th SW edge of Bering Glacier, extending S and SW of the Grindle Hills and forming the northern limit of Vitus Lake, 23 km (14 mi) E of Mount Campbell and 61 km (38 mi) WNW of Cape Yakataga

History

Named for Vitus Bering, leader of the 1741 voyage to Alaska; "lobe" refers to a rounded mass of ice projecting from a larger sheet