Kennicott Glacier is a glacier in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska, within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, trending southeast for 43 kilometers from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of the Kennicott River near the towns of McCarthy and the ghost town of Kennecott. It was named in 1899 by geologist Oscar Rohn of the United States Geological Survey for Robert Kennicott, an early Alaska explorer who led the scientific corps of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in 1865. The nunatak Packsaddle Island rises within the glacier's ice near the base of Mount Blackburn, and the glacier is currently retreating. 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: Kennicott 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: Kennicott Glacier
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Wikidata: Kennicott Glacier
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