Tustumena Glacier

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Tustumena Glacier
Tustemena Glacier, and its outflow into Tustemena Lake
Type	Mountain glacier
Location	Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates	60°03′30″N, 150°34′00″W
Length	20 miles (32 km)
Terminus	Glacial lake
Status	Retreating

Looking across the ice-margin Arctic Lake (currently drained) at the Tustemena Glacier

The Tustumena Glacier is a glacier located on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. The Tustumena Glacier begins in the Harding Icefield and makes its way down west for about twenty miles until its terminus roughly five miles before Tustumena Lake. The glacier is retreating.^[1]

A small lake called Arctic Lake sits alongside Tustumena Glacier, with its outflow underneath the ice. This lake periodically fills up and then drains as the glacier moves, leaving icebergs stranded in the sand.

The Alaska Marine Highway ferry M/V Tustumena derives its name from this glacier.

[edit] See also

List of glaciers

[edit] Cited references

^ Bailey, Ted. Ecological Changes Obvious on the Kenai Peninsula. Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Refuge Notebook. U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. Retrieved on 2007-01-18.