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A. M. BATEMAN KENNECOTT GLACIER OF ALASKA 



River and Northwestern Railroad. (See figure 1.) It is reached from 

 the railroad terminal and port of Cordova, which lies on the east side 

 of Prince William Sound. 



Figure 1. — Index Map of Part of Alaska 



Showing location of Wrangell Mountains and Kennecott Glacier (after U. S. Geological 



Survey) 



Topographic Setting 



The gathering grounds of Kennecott Glacier are in the lofty Wrangell 

 Mountains. These form an irregular mountain group, with a north- 

 westerly-southeasterly trend, and have been and still are the seat of 

 intense glaciation. They support extensive snowfields and innumerable 

 large and small valley glaciers. The range lies north of the Gulf of 

 Alaska and is separated from it by the high, rugged, snow-covered 

 Chugach Range, and is thus an interior range of mountains. The 

 higher peaks of the Wrangell Mountains rise to 16,140 feet and many 

 are over 12,000 feet. 



Kennecott Glacier emanates from Mount Blackburn, which rises to 

 an elevation of 16,140 feet, and its largest tributary extends from 



