Miles Glacier, Glacier in Valdez-Cordova, Alaska.
Miles Glacier is a 50-kilometre glacier in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, about 70 kilometres east-northeast of Cordova. It flows west from a 2,000-metre-high accumulation area north of Mount Tom White and ends at the east bank of the Copper River at the Miles Glacier Bridge, also called the Million Dollar Bridge. Its average width is 3.6 kilometres, and the Van Cleve Lake lies on its north flank.
Lieutenant Allen named the glacier in 1885 during his Alaska expedition, honouring Major General Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925) of the U.S. Army. The name appears in early mapping of the Chugach Mountains, where the glacier ends at Miles Lake near the Miles Glacier Bridge.
The glacier's name honours Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925), a U.S. Army major general; Lieutenant Allen gave it during his 1885 Alaska expedition. The Miles Glacier Bridge, called the Million Dollar Bridge, stands at the glacier's terminus on the Copper River, at the east end of the Copper River Highway.
The glacier's terminus sits at the east bank of the Copper River beside the Million Dollar Bridge, at the eastern end of the Copper River Highway, about 70 km east-northeast of Cordova. The glacier is reached by air or boat; the highway ends at the bridge. Its accumulation area lies at about 2,000 m in the Chugach Mountains north of Mount Tom White.
Miles Glacier ends at the east bank of the Copper River beside the Miles Glacier Bridge, known as the Million Dollar Bridge, at the eastern end of the Copper River Highway. The glacier's tongue widens the river into Miles Lake, and its north flank touches Van Cleve Lake, a glacial marginal lake below the Van Cleve Glacier.
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