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Definition of Mendenhall glacier

1. Noun. A glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mendenhall Glacier

Literary usage of Mendenhall glacier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Crosscountry skiing near the face of mendenhall glacier under a full moon is an ... mendenhall glacier The town of Juneau is a great place, but it's not the ..."

2. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"None of these glaciers are now tidal, although mendenhall glacier, which is 17 miles long and two to three miles wide at its terminus, descends to within ..."

3. Alaska, Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity by Agnes Rush Burr (1919)
"A trip that is not likely to be equalled elsewhere in the world is a motor ride to mendenhall glacier. Through a world all glorious with the rosy hue of ..."

4. Alaska, the Great Country by Ella Higginson (1908)
"Directly north of the latter island is mendenhall glacier, ... Shelter Island, west of mendenhall glacier, forms two channels — Saginaw and Favorite. ..."

5. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1903)
"mendenhall glacier, in Lat. 58° 25' N., Long. 134° 30'W., occupies the upper portion of a lateral channel jutting off northeasterly from the north end of ..."

6. Transactions and Proceedings of the Geographical Society of the Pacific by Geographical Society of the Pacific (1902)
"The mendenhall glacier* is shown on a good scale on the Coast Survey chart No. 8300, of 1895. It is seen from the westernmost part of the Gastineau Channel, ..."

7. Alaska by Anne Hart (2000)
"mendenhall glacier For a close look at the fabled "frozen north" you can drive around the loop road of the Glacier Highway to mendenhall glacier. ..."

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