Hubbard Glacier (Lingít: Sít' Tlein) is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard.

Hubbard glacier, is advancing at 80 foot per year is one of the few glaciers that continues to advance, is the largest tidal water glacier in North America. The glacier is 76 miles long, six miles wide and rises 300 foot over the sea level, is an awe inspiring vision to behold.

2023年3月31日 · Hubbard Glacier, a magnificent tidewater glacier located in eastern Alaska and part of the Yukon Territory in Canada, is a breathtaking natural wonder. Named after Gardiner Hubbard, the first president of the National Geographic Society, this glacier is known for its impressive size, active calving, and beautiful blue ice.

2023年10月16日 · While Hubbard and Glacier Bay are the two most famous glacier choices on Alaska cruises, don't forget the smaller options. Here's what to look for and what to expect. If your itinerary says you'll be cruising in Tracy Arm Fjord, you are there to see the twin Sawyer glaciers.

This tidewater glacier may be a bit of sleeping giant. Off the coast of Yakutat—200 miles NW of Juneau—Hubbard is certainly gigantic: it's more than six miles wide where it meets the ocean. It’s also been very active in the past, having had two major surges in the past 30 years.

2024年1月29日 · Hubbard Glacier. The Hubbard Glacier is North America's largest tidewater glacier. It is 76 miles long, 7 miles wide and 600 feet tall at its terminal face (350 feet exposed above the waterline and 250 feet below the waterline).

2024年5月8日 · The Hubbard Glacier is famous for being North America’s largest tidewater glacier. It’s over 120 kilometres long (75 miles), 11 km wide (7 miles) and flows directly into Disenchantment Bay, which feeds into the North Pacific Ocean.

Since measurements began in 1895, Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier has been thickening and steadily advancing into Disenchantment Bay. The advance runs counter to so many thinning and retreating glaciers nearby in Alaska and around the world.

Hubbard Glacier has a large accumulation area, like a river with a large watershed. This large area of snow in the mountains upstream either melts or flows down to the end of the glacier, and Hubbard steadily grows. In fact, Hubbard Glacier has advanced 1.5 miles, or about 2.4 kilometers, since 1895. These Landsat images illustrate an unusual ...

2019年6月26日 · Hubbard Glacier, which is found in Disenchantment Bay at the end of Yakutat Bay, is one of more than 110,000 glaciers in Alaska and North America's largest tidewater glacier. Hubbard Glacier was named in 1890 for Gardiner G. Hubbard, who was the founder of the National Geographic Society.