Nature
Amherst Glacier is a four-mile-long glacier in Alaska that extends northwest to a lake. It lies about 5.5 miles northeast of Point Pakenham and fifty-two miles southwest of Valdez. Members of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition gave it its name in honor of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, linking this Alaskan landscape to the college through the expedition’s geographic naming.
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Whittier, Alaska · United States
