Nabesna Glacier

61.9333 - 143.09056Koordinaten: 61 ° 56 '0 "N, 143 ° 5' 26 " W

The Nabesna Glacier is a glacier in the Wrangell-St Elias National Park in the Wrangell Mountains in southeastern Alaska. He is with a length of over 120 km, the longest valley glaciers of the earth, does not lead to a sea.

The glacier flows from the eastern flank of the 4317 m high Mount Wrangell first east past Mount Blackburn and Mount Etna peaks, turns for northbound and ends in a valley just 25 kilometers south of the old mining settlement Nabesna. Around 40 glaciers from tributary valleys feeding the Nabesna. Its melting water forms the Nabesna River, which flows through the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge to the Tanana River.

It was named glacier in 1902 by FC Schrader of the United States Geological Survey after the river, which springs from it.