Muir Glacier

American  

noun

1. a glacier in SE Alaska, flowing SE from Mt. Fairweather into Glacier Bay. About 350 sq. mi. (905 sq. km).

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Muir Glacier British  

/ mjʊə /

noun

1. a glacier in SE Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains, flowing southeast from Mount Fairweather. Area: about 900 sq km (350 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The Muir Glacier has now retreated more than 30 miles from the sea up into the mountains.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2019

We motored slowly past a chunk of rock swarming with bald eagles on top and sea lions below, and approached the spot that, in the 1890s, had marked the terminus of Muir Glacier.

From New York Times • May 21, 2018

The lower summits about the Muir Glacier, like this one, the first that I climbed, are richly adorned and enlivened with flowers, though they make but a faint show in general views.

From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John

Who thinks he can lay his hand on the rugged edge of the Muir Glacier and compel it to advance no farther?

From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Reid, Whitelaw

The colossal Muir Glacier, the remains of a world the history of which is lost in the dim twilight none can now penetrate, is dying slowly through a million years.

From Five Nights by Cross, Victoria