Camicia Glacier

Camicia Glacier in Detail.

Heads at 611100N, 1455900W, trends WSW to its end at Camicia Creek, 8 mi NE of Valdez, Chugach Mts. 4 miles long.

Named for Dr. L.S. Camicia, optician and watchmaker of Valdez, who measured the retreat of Valdez Glacier nearly every year from 1898 to 1911. Reported in 1914 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Named after Valdez local Lewis S. Camicia.

A March 20, 1902 newspaper The Alaska Prospector, had an add with a graphic of a pocket watch that read. "Dr. L. S. Camicia, Dentist and Optician, A full line of spectacles on hand. Clocks and watches repaired on short notice. McKinley St."

"Mr. L. S. Camicia, of Valdez, Alaska, a jeweler and optician, died in May, 1912. He was a Swiss, largely self-educated and intensely interested in nature. From 1898 to 1912 he visited Valdez Glacier once a year in the same month and accurately measured its retreat. He is the only resident of Alaska who is known to have maintained annual observations of the behavior of a glacier. He also kept a continuous daily weather record for the fourteen years at his residence in Alaska, and a series of manuscript notes on time and durations of earthquakes at Valdez that checks well with the accurate seismograph records."
Science Vol. XXXVI - July to December 1912 - by John Michels