Harvard Glacier

The Harvard Glacier is a large tidewater glacier in the Alaska's Prince William Sound. The glacier has a 1.5-mile (2 km) wide face where it calves into the College Fjord. It is 300 ft thick and covers 120,000 acres of Chugach National Forest. The Harvard Glacier is the second largest glacier in the Prince William Sound, after the Columbia Glacier. It is a popular destination of cruise ships in the Prince William Sound.

Harvard Glacier

Harvard Glacier
Harvard Glacier is the large glacier at the head of College Fjord. You can see the wide medial moraines in this photo.
Harvard Glacier
Type	Tidewater glacier
Location	Matanuska-Susitna Borough and Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates	61°23′20″N 147°26′11″W
Area	120,000 acres
Thickness	300 ft
Terminus	Harvard Arm, College Fjord
Status	Advancing

See also

• List of glaciers

References

• Ulysses Sherman Grant; Daniel F. Higgins (jr.) (1913). Coastal Glaciers of Prince William Sound and Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 42–.
• Jeffrey Stuart Kargel (8 July 2014). Global Land Ice Measurements from Space. Springer. pp. 315–. ISBN 978-3-540-79818-7.