Jackson Glacier is a mountain glacier on the north side of Mount Jackson in Glacier National Park, Glacier County, Montana, sitting south of the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the east side of the Continental Divide in the upper St. Mary Valley. As of 2005 it covered about 250 acres and measured 0.7 miles long, making it roughly the seventh largest of the park's 25 remaining glaciers, but it is retreating quickly, having lost nearly a third of its area between 1966 and 2005 alone; as recently as 1850 it was joined to the now-separate Blackfoot Glacier in a combined ice mass of 1,875 acres. 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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The glacier was most recently measured in 2005 at 250 acres (1.0 km2), yet when first documented in 1850, the glacier also included the now separate Blackfoot Glacier and together, they covered 1,875 acres (7.59 km2).
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Jackson Glacier is approximately the seventh largest of the remaining 25 glaciers in Glacier National Park located in the US state of Montana.
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Jackson Glacier is approximately the seventh largest of the remaining 25 glaciers in Glacier National Park located in the US state of Montana.
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