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Bagley Icefield, or Bagley Ice Valley, is a vast southeastern Alaska icefield and the second largest nonpolar icefield in North America. About 200 kilometers long, roughly 10 kilometers wide, and up to 1 kilometer thick, it spans much of the Saint Elias Mountains and reaches into the Chugach Mountains. It feeds many valley glaciers, including the Tana, Miles, and Guyot, and with the Bering Glacier system forms an immense glaciated area of about 5,200 square kilometers. Named for James W. Bagley of the U.S. Geological Survey, it is now a defining glacial landscape within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
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