LeConte Glacier

The LeConte Glacier is a glacier in the Tongass National Forest in the panhandle of Alaska. Its accumulation zone is the Stikine Icecap in the Coast Mountains. It flows 32 km east of Petersburg in the LeConte Bay, a bay of Frederick Sound.

The LeConte Glacier is the southernmost glacier in the northern hemisphere, which flows into a sea. Since the first recording in 1887, the glacier has retreated by about 4 km. Today, its size is assumed to be stable.

It was named glacier in 1887 by Lieutenant CM Thomas of the United States Navy by Joseph LeConte ( 1823-1901 ), an American geologist and professor at the University of California.