Heads in an icefield in Canada, trends southeast and southwest to its 1959 terminus at Disenchantement Bay, 34 miles north-northeast of Yakutat, St. Elias Mountains. 80 miles long.
Named in 1890 by Russell (1891, p. 99), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for Gardiner G. Hubbard, 1822-97, Massachusetts lawer and educator, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and founder and first president of the National Geographic Society, which office he held from 1888 until his death. Interested in the exploration of Alaska, he helped in instigating Russell's 1890 and 1891 expeditions, which were sponsored jointly by the National Geographic Society and the U.S. Geological Sruvey.