Clark Glacier

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This is about a glacier in Alaska. There are three glaciers in Antarctica named Clarke Glacier.

Clark Glacier is an 8-mile-long (13 km) glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It leads northwest to its 1961 terminus at the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, 78 miles (126 km) northwest of Hoonah, Alaska. It was named by W. O. Field and W. S. Cooper in 1936 for Johns Hopkins University professor of geology William Bullock Clark (1860–1917).

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  • Clark Glacier (Alaska). Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.
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