From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pumpkin Glacier
Pumpkin Glacier
Pumpkin Glacier Cited references
Type Mountain glacier [1] "Pumpkin Glacier". Geographic Names Information
Location Glacier National Park, Flathead County, System, U.S. Geological Survey.
Montana, USA http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/
f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:775490. Retrieved
Coordinates 48°35′03″N 113°39′27″W / 48.58417°N
113.6575°W / 48.58417; 2010-10-10.
-113.6575Coordinates: 48°35′03″N [2] ^ "Retreat of Glaciers in Glacier National Park"
113°39′27″W / 48.58417°N 113.6575°W / (pdf). United States Geological Survey. 2010.
48.58417; -113.6575[1] http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/files/norock/
Area Pumpkin and Pumpelly Glaciers combined products/
cover 310 acres (1.3 km2) in 2005[2] GlacierRecession_infosheet2010_SRC_040910.pdf.
Retrieved 2010-10-23.
Terminus Barren rock
[3] "Mount Jackson, MT" (Map). TopoQuest (USGS
Status Retreating Quad). http://www.topoquest.com/
map.php?lat=48.58414&lon=-113.65761&datum=nad83&zoom=4.
Pumpkin Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Montana in Retrieved 2010-10-10.
Glacier National Park. The glacier is northeast of Black-
foot Mountain and adjacent to Pumpelly Glacier, the two
glaciers separated by crevasses. Pumpkin Glacier covers
See also
approximately 35 acres (0.14 km2) at elevations between • List of glaciers in the United States
8,500 feet (2,600 m) and 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea • Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
level. Pumpkin Glacier is immediately west of the Conti-
nental Divide.[3] Pumpkin and Pumpelly Glaciers covered
310 acres (1.3 km2) as of 2005, a 15 percent reduction in
area since 1966.[2]
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Categories:
• Glaciers of Flathead County, Montana
• Glaciers of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
• Montana geography stubs
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