Holgate Glacier, Tidewater glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, US

Holgate Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park that flows from the Harding Icefield into the Holgate Arm of Aialik Bay. The visible ice face spans several miles and displays deep crevasses and colored bands where rocks and sediment frozen within the ice show through.

Holgate Glacier drains the Harding Icefield and is about 8 km long and 1.5 km wide where it meets the Holgate Arm, a side inlet of Aialik Bay, 35 km southwest of Seward. It is named after Thomas F. Holgate (1859–1945), president of Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906 and 1916 to 1919.

The glacier is named after Thomas F. Holgate (1859–1945), president of Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906 and 1916 to 1919. Visitors on tour boats from Seward hear the name announced as they approach the ice face at the head of Holgate Arm.

The best views come from boat tours departing Seward that regularly reach the glacier in the bay. For closer encounters, kayak expeditions paddle among the ice formations and offer views from water level.

The glacier is named after Thomas F. Holgate (1859–1945), president of Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906 and again from 1916 to 1919. The naming is a detail most visitors viewing the ice from a Seward tour boat never learn.