Skip to content
Satellite portrait on its way
The first satellite portrait is being prepared.61.05° N, 148.46° W
Available

Surprise Glacier

Surprise Glacier is a 78.9 km² glacier in United States, in the West Chugach Mountains (Talkeetna) area of Alaska that flows into the sea. It is 16.1 km long, from -2 m to 2,192 m above sea level.

Inventory ID RGI2000-v7.0-G-01-09262, outline mapped in 2009. Source: Randolph Glacier Inventory 7.0. More glaciers in Alaska.

Give it as a gift
Area
78.9 km²
Length
16.2 km
Highest point
2,192 m
Lowest point
-2 m
Median elevation
1,054 m
Mean slope
16°
Glacier data: RGI 7.0 Consortium (2023), Randolph Glacier Inventory, Version 7.0, NSIDC, CC BY 4.0. Adoption is symbolic and gives no legal title to the ice.