The Taku Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Taku Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, just southeast of Juneau, largely within the Tongass National Forest. It is recognized as the deepest and thickest known alpine temperate glacier in the world, measured at 4,845 feet thick and about 58 kilometers long. It carried the names Schultze Glacier and Foster Glacier before the local Tlingit name Taku became its permanent name. 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.
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Taku Glacier (Lingít: T'aaḵú Ḵwáan Sít'i) is a tidewater glacier located in Taku Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, just southeast of the city of Juneau.
Wikidata: Taku Glacier
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