Coordinates: 59°18′15″N 136°27′28″W / 59.30417°N 136.45778°W / 59.30417; -136.45778

Tsirku Glacier

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Tsirku Glacier
Map showing the location of Tsirku Glacier
Map showing the location of Tsirku Glacier
Tsirku Glacier
Typeicefield
LocationHaines Borough, Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates59°18′15″N 136°27′28″W / 59.30417°N 136.45778°W / 59.30417; -136.45778
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The Tsirku Glacier is a large icefield in the Saint Elias Mountains, spanning the border between British Columbia and Alaska, to the south of the Jarvis Glacier.[1][2] It is the source of the Tsirku River, which flows northwest to become the second-largest tributary of the Chilkat River. GNIS gives its head at 59°17′00″N 136°47′00″W / 59.28333°N 136.78333°W / 59.28333; -136.78333 and describes it as flowing across the Canada–US border one mile west of the head of the Tsirku River.[2]

Name

The name is Tlingit in origin, first published by both the United States and Canada in 1923.[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Province of British Columbia - GeoBC entry "Tsirku Glacier"". apps.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  2. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tsirku Glacier