Alaska Gazetteer
Dawes Glacier is a physical feature (glacier) in Petersburg Borough Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Dawes Glacier |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Glacier |
| Description: | heads at Alaska-Canada boundary, trends NW to Endicott Arm, 96 mi. NW of Sitka, Coast Mts. 15 miles long. |
| History: | "Named in 1891 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Henry Laurens Dawes, 1816-1903, lawyer and statesman from Massachusetts. The glacier was originally called ""Young Glacier"" in 1880 by John Muir for Reverend S. Hall Young, his companion (Young, 1915, p. 147)." |
| Borough: | Petersburg Borough Borough |
| Latitude: | 57.451587677 |
| Longitude: | -132.543182373 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Dawes Glacier: Dawes Glacier.
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