Extreme Ice Survey :: Sperry Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

SPERRY GLACIER, GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MONTANA

September 4, 2006

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The glacier's surface area was 3.76 sq. km in 1850 and 0.87 sq. km in 1993, the date of the last precise survey. Below Sperry Glacier is glacier-scoured bedrock and melt water lakes formed as the ice receded in recent decades.

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