Fourth Glacier

Fourth Glacier in Detail.

heads 1.4 mi. W of Black Tit, trends SW to its 1961 terminus 2.6 mi. SE of Mount Pinta, 20 mi. NE of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts. 2.8 miles long.

Local name reported in 1909 by Laurence Martin as having been used since 1897 or 1898. This was the fourth glacier within Yakutat Bay, which the prospectors attempted to traverse in the late 1890's to reach the Alsek valley gold fields. The first was the Turner Glacier, the Hubbard Glacier was the second, and Nunatak Glacier was the third. The name "Beasley Glacier" was proposed by Blackwelder (1907, p. 417-418), instead of "Fourth Glacier," for R. W. Beasley of Yakutat, but this name was not accepted by Board on Geographic Names (BGN).