Information About

Wosnesenski Glacier

Quick Facts

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Location

59 ° 28' 57" N,
150 ° 55' 59.999" W

Region

Kenai Peninsula

Nearest City

Homer

Elevation

3005 ft (915.92 m)

Wosnesenski Glacier in Detail.

About

heads in Kenai Mts. and trends to its terminus at an unnamed stream 18 mi. SE of Homer, Chugach Mts.

History

Named by Dall (1880, p. 339), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), for I. G. Wosnesenski, Russian Academy of Sciences, who made collections and observations in this region about 1840.