266 R. S. TAUR RECENT ADVANCE OF GLACIERS IN ALASKA 



cliff from which icebergs are discharged into Disenchantment bay. It is 

 an actively moving and greatly crevassed glacier, and this has been its 

 condition since first seen by Enssell in 1890. 



HAENEE GLACIER 



Condition in 1905. — Not over half a mile north of the Turner there is 

 a small glacier, (plate 11), and about three-quarters of a mile far- 

 ther north another similar one. These two glaciers have never been 

 named. In 1905 they were so nearly alike that a description of one 

 would practically apply to the other. Each descended rather steeply, at 

 an angle of perhaps 15 or 20 degrees, and ended at the head of an alluvial' 

 fan about a quarter of a mile from the fiord. The lower mile of their 

 course consisted of what appeared to be essentially stagnant ice, so 

 veneered with black shale fragments as to completely hide the ice when 

 viewed from a distance. Because of this blackness none of our photo- 

 graphs reveal the true glacier character of the lower ends, though it was 

 evident enough to the eye. It is, however, clearly shown in a Boundary 

 Commission photograph taken in 1895, from which it is evident that the 

 condition was then identical with that in 1905. 



Condition in 1906. — In June, 1906, the northern glacier had advanced 

 somewhat and become slightly crevassed; but the southern, or Haenke 

 glacier, had undergone a wonderful change (plate 12). It had not 

 only advanced over its alluvial fan, but had moved boldly out into the 

 fiord, expanding both to the north and south, in the latter direction coa- 

 lescing with Turner glacier, and extending the ice-cliff of that glacier 

 fully a mile to the northward. As a result of this forward advance, the 

 front of Haenke glacier had by June, 1906, advanced not less than a 

 mile farther out than it was ten months before. 



As in the case of Variegated glacier, this forward rush has broken the 

 ice into a sea of crevasses, from the ice-cliff in the fiord to a point at 

 least as far up the mountain valley as we could see. Unlike Variegated 

 glacier, this breaking of the ice has not been followed by a notable dis- 

 appearance of the morainic veneer, and therefore its surface is still black 

 with debris. This fact may be due to the recency of the advance, al- 

 though in all probability it is chiefly the result of the difference in climate 

 between this point and Variegated glacier. Lying as it does between the 

 ice-cliffs of the Turner and Hubbard glaciers, and fronted by a contin- 

 uous stream of floating ice, the climate of this part of the inlet is de- 

 cidedly colder than other portions. In fact, in the first week of July 

 snow still remained on the alluvial fan north of Haenke glacier. There 



