Nature
Riggs Glacier lies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska. It starts on the southern slope of the Takhinsha Mountains, about 6 kilometers southeast of Mount Harris, and flows south-southeast to the head of Muir Inlet, roughly 69 kilometers southwest of Skagway. In 1947, the American Geographical Society named it for Thomas Riggs Jr., who served as Governor of Alaska from 1918 to 1921. Its position at the head of Muir Inlet places it within one of Alaska’s most notable glacial landscapes, where ice, mountains, and fjord waters meet.
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