DISCOVERY IN ALASKA
WORLD’S LARGEST GLACIER. CORDOVA (Alaska), August 22. Flying along the St. Elias range of mountains, the National Geographic and Harvard University expedition led by Mr Bradford Washburn has discovered the world’s largest glacier system outside the Polar icecaps. The flight revealed that the Bering Seward and Malaspina glaciers are connected by a river of ice forming a mass over 7000 feet high and over 100 miles long.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 5
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70DISCOVERY IN ALASKA Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 5
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