McCarty Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Harding Icefield, within the Kenai Mountains of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, named for former Seward resident William McCarty. The glacier has retreated dramatically since the early 1900s, its terminus pulling back 15 kilometers from the mouth of the bay, a change documented by comparing photographs of its extent in 1909 and 2004. It now covers about 15 square miles and continues to retreat. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Glaciation via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: McCarty Glacier
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Glaciology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: McCarty Glacier
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Source Wikidata: McCarty Glacier
Sources
1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN: Protected areas at the coordinates of McCarty Glacier, World Database on Protected Areas
UNEP-WCMC and IUCNname_eng and desig_engQuote, name_eng and desig_eng
"name_eng": "Kenai Fjords", "desig_eng": "National Park"
McCarty Glacier (Wikipedia)
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The McCarty Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Wikidata: McCarty Glacier
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