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Lamplugh Glacier is an eight-mile glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, flowing north to Johns Hopkins Inlet. Named around 1912 by Lawrence Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey for English geologist George William Lamplugh, who visited Glacier Bay in 1884, it reflects a period of close geological survey and exploration. The glacier is also notable for a major modern landslide: on June 28, 2016, a mountainside collapsed onto the ice, dumping between 62 million and 79.8 million cubic meters of rock and debris, totaling about 120 million metric tons, and spreading a debris field nine kilometers across its surface.
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