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McCarty Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska that flows from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains on the Kenai Peninsula. Named for former Seward resident William McCarty, it has become a striking example of the effects of global warming on Alaska’s coastal glaciers. Since the early 1900s, the glacier’s terminus has retreated about 15 kilometers from the mouth of the bay, illustrating the major changes that have reshaped many glaciers along Alaska’s coast.
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