Glacier Experience EarthCache
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The Earthcache is where the Turner Glacier meets the Hubbard
Glacier.
This area is visited by thousands of people every day. Quite often
of them quite elderly and stuffing their faces with buffet food.
That's how I experienced this area (via Cruise Ship) The high
terrain rating is due to the fact that you have to be on a boat on
the water or in a plane to experience it. There may be other ways
to experience it as well. I'm open minded, just don't try to swim.
From Wikipedia- Hubbard Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the U.S.
state of Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. From its source
in the Yukon, the glacier stretches 76 miles to the sea at Yakutat
Bay and Disenchantment Bay. It is the longest tidewater glacier in
Alaska, with an open calving face over ten kilometers 6 miles wide.
Before it reaches the sea, Hubbard is joined by the Valerie Glacier
to the west, which, through forward surges of its own ice, has
contributed to the advance of the ice flow that experts believe
will eventually dam the Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay
waters. The ice at the foot of Hubbard Glacier is about 400 years
old: it takes that long for ice to traverse the length of the
glacier. The glacier routinely calves off icebergs the size of
large buildings. Where the glacier meets the shore, most of the ice
is below the waterline, and newly calved icebergs can shoot up
quite dramatically, so that ships must keep their distance from it
as they ply their way up and down the coast. ***To log this cache:
1. Photo at cache site (give or take 50 miles - to verify location)
2. estimate the height of the glacier from the water 3. A nugget of
info you learned about glaciers
Glitterfy.com - Photo
Flipbooks
Additional Hints
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