North Klawatti Glacier | |
Type: | Valley glacier |
Location: | North Cascades National Park, Skagit County, Washington, U.S. |
Map: | USA Washington |
Label Position: | right |
Map Size: | 225 |
Coordinates: | 48.5653°N -121.0775°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [1] |
Length: | 1.4miles |
Terminus: | Icefall |
Status: | Retreating |
North Klawatti Glacier lies in a cirque to the east of Austera Peak, North Cascades National Park, in the U.S. state of Washington.[2] The glacier is approximately 1.4miles in length, 0.4miles in width at its widest and descends from 7800feetto6000feetft (toft), where it terminates above Klawatti Lake. An arête divides North Klawatti Glacier from Klawatti Glacier to the south.[2] In 1993, it had an area of 1.48 km2. The North Klawatti Glacier was one of four glaciers selected for glacier mass balance research.[3] From 1993 (when monitoring began) to 2013 the glacier had lost ~8 m of thickness. [4]