Agassiz Glacier

Agassiz Glacier is a valley glacier in the Saint Elias Mountains of southern Alaska that extends slightly into Canada. About 25 kilometers long and roughly 3 kilometers wide, it is fed by Newton Glacier, flows southwest before turning southeast, and is joined by Libbey Glacier from the west. Its ice then merges into the much larger Malaspina Glacier on the way toward the Gulf of Alaska. William Libbey of The New York Times expedition named it in 1886 for Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz, linking the glacier to a late-19th-century period of exploration and scientific interest in the Saint Elias region.

Yakutat, Alaska · United States