AbstractsGeography &GIS
Observations of glacier termini in the Prince William Sound area, Alaska.
| Institution: | McGill University |
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| Department: | Department of Geography. |
| Degree: | PhD |
| Year: | 1965 |
| Keywords: | Geography. |
| Record ID: | 1497270 |
| Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118062.pdf |
Abstract
Since Captain James Cook's historic voyage in 1778, Alaskan glaciers have been described, mapped, and studied many times. Several expeditions have gone to Alaska for the sole purpose of studying glaciers. Of these field studies the most important were the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 (Gilbert, 1903), the National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expeditions 1909, 1910 (Tarr and Martin, 1914), and the work of William O Field in 1931 and 1935 (Field, 1932 and 1937). [...]
