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Brady Glacier is a 24-mile glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, extending south to Taylor Bay northwest of Hoonah. When George Vancouver saw it in 1794, it was a calving tidewater glacier that released ice directly into the bay. Over the next century it advanced about eight kilometers, a change Bengston later interpreted as a shift from a tidal to a non-tidal glacier. Its broad outwash plain at the terminus was thought to help preserve it while many nearby glaciers retreated. It is also notable for an unusually low equilibrium line altitude of 800 meters. The glacier was named by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for missionary and later governor Rev. Mr Brady O'Keefe.
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