Glacier Bay is located in the United States of America. More specifically, it’s in the southeastern region of Alaska, next to the Pacific Ocean. This 3.3 million acre National Park is one of the biggest features Alaska has.
The history behind this Alaskan national park is interesting. In 1786, the first european arrived at the glacier region. His name is Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and he came across with Native Americans living there in Alaska. Later on, Russia declared the Alaskan land theirs in 1788. In the 1890’s, Americans began to grow interest in the land for the gold located there.
There are traces of over 10,000 years ago giving evidence of human activity near the glaciers. The Tlingit are an Alaskan Native group
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Due to the geologic activity of tectonic plate movement, that movement forced the land to come together and form mountains. One of the highest coastal mountains in the world, Most of Mount Fairweather resides within the national park. It is one of the biggest mountains in the world. It’s elevation peaks at over 15,000 ft. Climbers must be well-skilled, aware, good judgement, and have plenty of experience before attempting to reach it’s summit. The reason for this is that national park doesn’t have a rescue team for high altitude to provide.
Glacier Bay national park has three different types of climatic zones. Along the Gulf of Alaska coast, there tends to be more temperatures more mild with precipitation, but not much snowfall. In the upper region of the national park, there’s much colder temperatures with a lot of snow. The lower portion of Glacier Bay has more mild temperatures and is usually rainy throughout the year.
The glaciers have been through a minimum of four glacial periods. They’ve been through the Little Ice age, which commenced around 4,000 years ago. Marks of retreating glacier ice are seen in the rock-strewn and sculpted peaks valleys. The land and bodies of water that the retreating ice has created a new display of animal and plant communities. Ice fields, expansive river and stream systems, and tidewater glaciers significantly determine the likelihood of animals and plants to
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Anybody who’s going hunting on the reserve must follow state regulation, carry appropriate permits, and all the licenses required. All people going sport fishing are required to have an Alaska state fishing license. There are also strict regulation on any fish sales or harvesting in certain areas. Overnight camping is also controlled as permits are needed to stay the night.
The national park is part of the North Pacific Coastal Ecological Community biome. Another biome in the park is their temperate forest. Temperate forests have high humidity, high levels of precipitation, and variety of trees are also included. Freshwater biomes surround the park as well.
Glacier Bay national park provides five different types of ecosystems. There’s wet tundra, alpine tundra, glaciers and iceland, coastal western hemlock/Sitka spruce forest, and post-glacial meadows and thickets. As for marine ecosystems, continental shelf, wave-beaten coasts, and fjord estuaries have been
This discovery was made by the Scandinavian explorer Hans Egede, 300 years ago when he went out in search of the lost Greenland colonies. Although Hans was unsuccessful at finding the lost colonies he did find the local Inuit. He recorded in his ship’s log his interaction with them. The ship’s log tells many oral stories from the Inuit people claiming that their Thule ancestors fought the Norse Vikings for their iron and ultimately killed them off. Hans Egede ship’s log also confirms that the Thule were great survivors and warriors, whilst being directly related to the modern day Inuit. Niobe Thompson concludes that the Thule odyssey ended in Greenland right when the Inuit odyssey began. Even though the Thule journey ended their traditions and ways of survival are still used in Inuit communities
Human settlement has been a part of Katmai National Park for a long time. Tribes have been living in Katmai since before the last ice age, before the time of written record. On the Pacific slope lived the Koniag people, and the Peninsular Eskimos lived west of the Aleutian Range. In the Bristol Bay area lived the Aglegmiuts. The Russians invaded soon after, displacing the Peninsular Eskimos and Aglegmiuts. These last native people of Katmai hunted, fished, and gathered,...
What is a biome? Biomes are major life zones characterized by vegetation type or by the physical environment. Climate plays a role in determining the nature and location of Earth’s biomes. Texas has 10 different ecosystems with lots of diversity. Minnesota has 4 different ecosystems which are also quite diverse. Regardless of the size of the biomes or the number of biomes in each state, they are all important not just to the locate environment but on a global level because of the life they support. We are going to take a look at the different biomes, comparing climate and rainfall, as well as vegetation fauna.
Glaciers can be classified into many categories. First they are divided into either Alpine or Continental. Alpine glaciers are those that are found in mountainous regions and Continental, such as Greenland,...
Alaska is located northwest of the 48 linked states, it is on the western border of Canada and the Pacific Ocean. Alaska was a part of Russia before the United States bought it from Russia.
In Montana, tall mountains create two distinct climate regions. To the west of the mountains, the weather is milder (Av2 books).
In 1971 seven of the eight Ahtna Native villages within the Region merged to form Ahtna Inc. and all eight are Federally Recognized Tribes. As a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, when the Ahtna tribes (Ahtna Inc.) filed a use and occupancy claim in response to the state of Alaska’s claim to lands. The Ahtna Inc. now owns approximately 1,528,000 acres of land conveyed in December 1998 from an entitlement of 1,770,000 acres. (http://www.ahtna-inc.com)
Even the Antarctic area has a couple of its own arctic regions. The climate of the tundra is characterized by harsh winters. The average temperature in the tundra area is about –27 degrees. But what is even worse is the long night. At night the lowest temperature recorded was –67.36 degrees.
Denali’s location makes it a wonderful place to escape the ordinary. Denali National Park is situated in the central part of Alaska. The two major cities closest to it are Fairbanks, Alaska and Anchorage, Alaska. “There is one road entrance into Denali. The entrance is along Alaska Highway 3(also called George Parks Highway) about 240 miles north of Anchorage, 120 miles south of Fairbanks, and 12 miles south of Healy- the nearest year-round community.”(Plan Your Visit). The National Park is an 8,899 square mile protected area(Encyclopedia Americana). It provides an opportunity to view nature up close or from the comfort of a shuttle bus.
Boasting a temperate rainforest, towering glaciated mountain range and a Pacific Ocean coastline covered in massive rock formations, there is no where that protects such a wealth of different settings. In addition there are several stunning lakes and waterfalls that add even more diversity to the region.
About 15,000 years ago, a strip of land called the Central Beringia once connected Siberia and Alaska. Due to global warming and the warming of the Earth, the bridge shrunk around the edges causing the sea to rise and the waters to rise. The Siberia people who lived near the bridge began to move to North America due to the bridge being shrunk. People believe that they were colonized by animals and hunting. This is because as the waters rose, they had to move along with it and they moved to the places where they knew that they could find food easily. The first settlement seemed to be sporadic with an untidy process, or even no p...
some lower areas of the Tundra will defrost at which point most of the flora and
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...e, and a quaint town only five minutes from the national park, there is always something to keep you entertained. As one of the last, nearly intact, temperate ecosystems on Earth it is home to a very unstable, diverse ecosystem. Come to this magnificently beautiful mountain range, and witness all its beauty and serenity first hand.
All of Maine was once covered by glaciers, the last of which receded about 10,000 years ago. Because of the glaciers, much of Maine is covered with stones, boulders, and clays. Many of the hills and mountains have been rounded, lakes have been formed, and river courses have been changed. Although glaciers covered all of Maine, there are nevertheless substantial physiographic differences in the regions of the state. Maine can be divided into three major natural regions: the White Mountain section, the New England Upland, and the Seaboard Lowland. These three regions are part of the New England province, which in turn forms part of the Appalachian Region.