Pumpelly Glacier | |
Type: | Mountain glacier |
Map: | USA Montana |
Label Position: | right |
Map Size: | 225 |
Coordinates: | 48.5833°N -113.6592°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [1] |
Area: | Pumpelly and Pumpkin Glaciers combined cover 310acres in 2005[2] |
Length: | 0.5miles |
Terminus: | Barren rock |
Status: | Retreating |
Pumpelly Glacier is in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is situated immediately northeast of Blackfoot Mountain at an elevation between 8500feetand8000feetft (andft) above sea level. Pumpelly Glacier is just west of the Continental Divide and adjacent to Pumpkin Glacier, the two glaciers separated by crevasses.[3] The glacier was named after Raphael Pumpelly who had first sighted the glacier in 1883.[1] Pumpelly and Pumpkin Glaciers cover 310acres as of 2005, a 15 percent reduction in area since 1966.[2]