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The Juneau Icefield is a vast glacier system in the Coast Range north of Juneau, Alaska, extending into British Columbia and spanning about 3,900 square kilometres. It includes more than 40 large valley glaciers and about 100 smaller ones, among them Mendenhall and Taku glaciers, and forms one of the major glaciated landscapes along the Alaska–British Columbia boundary. After reaching a maximum extent around 1700, most of its outlet glaciers have retreated, especially through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, though Taku Glacier advanced for much of that period. Since 1948, long-term scientific study there has tracked changing ice extent and mass balance, while tourism has brought visitors onto the ice.
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Juneau, Alaska · United States
