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Muir Glacier

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Muir Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, currently about 0.7 kilometers wide at its terminus. As recently as the mid-1980s it was a tidewater glacier that calved icebergs from an ice wall roughly 90 meters tall, before retreating from the bay's waters.

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Muir Glacier is a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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