Harding Icefield

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Harding Icefield

icefield, Alaska, United States

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Alaskan mountains
Physiography of the southern ranges
…resulting in the Sargent and Harding ice fields in the Kenai Mountains (on the Kenai Peninsula) and the Bagley Ice Field in the eastern Chugach Mountains. Numerous long and spectacular glaciers descend from the crests of those mountains. The St. Elias Mountains and the Kenai-Chugach mountain system have the most-extensive…
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…resulting in the Sargent and Harding ice fields in the Kenai Mountains (on the Kenai Peninsula) and the Bagley Ice Field in the eastern Chugach Mountains. Numerous long and spectacular glaciers descend from the crests of those mountains. The St. Elias Mountains and the Kenai-Chugach mountain system have the most-extensive…
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Kenai Fjords National Park
…park includes the 300-square-mile (777-square-km) Harding Icefield and its outflowing glaciers and numerous coastal fjords and islands, which are remnants of drowned mountains. Eight of the ice field’s outflowing glaciers reach the sea and calve icebergs into the fjords. Alpine vegetation is found at high elevations nearest the glaciers, and…
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…park includes the 300-square-mile (777-square-km) Harding Icefield and its outflowing glaciers and numerous coastal fjords and islands, which are remnants of drowned mountains. Eight of the ice field’s outflowing glaciers reach the sea and calve icebergs into the fjords. Alpine vegetation is found at high elevations nearest the glaciers, and…
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