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McCarty Glacier

Glaciers and Ice Formations

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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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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McCarty Glacier (Wikipedia)
Wikidata: McCarty Glacier
Wikidata Q6800219, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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