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College Fjord is located northern part of the Prince William Sound, closer to Whitter than Valdez. In 1899 wealthy Railroad magnate
Edward Harriman, spent two months exploring and documenting the Alaska coast to Siberia and back to Seattle. He brought along an elite
community of scientists, artists, photographers and naturalists. Harriman also brought a medical team, a taxidermist and his family and
servents all 126 on board. They discovered an unmapped fjord and named it Harriman Fjord, they also named the glaciers of the adjacent
fjord with names of colleges, with the girls' colleges on the north west side and Men colleges on the east side. There were 600 new
species of plant and animals, including 38 species in fossils. It is quite accomplishment. Harriman continue to fund the publications until his
death ten years later, his wife did afterwards. That is good use of money.
It is quite a distance from Glacier Bay National Park to College Fjord. We arrived around 5 pm, went in for dinner at six. We saw
Wellesley,Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Smith and Harvard Glaciers. After dinner, 7:30 or so, we are approaching Harvard Glacier. It was getting
dark then.
Edward Harriman, spent two months exploring and documenting the Alaska coast to Siberia and back to Seattle. He brought along an elite
community of scientists, artists, photographers and naturalists. Harriman also brought a medical team, a taxidermist and his family and
servents all 126 on board. They discovered an unmapped fjord and named it Harriman Fjord, they also named the glaciers of the adjacent
fjord with names of colleges, with the girls' colleges on the north west side and Men colleges on the east side. There were 600 new
species of plant and animals, including 38 species in fossils. It is quite accomplishment. Harriman continue to fund the publications until his
death ten years later, his wife did afterwards. That is good use of money.
It is quite a distance from Glacier Bay National Park to College Fjord. We arrived around 5 pm, went in for dinner at six. We saw
Wellesley,Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Smith and Harvard Glaciers. After dinner, 7:30 or so, we are approaching Harvard Glacier. It was getting
dark then.
The first glacier we saw. Can't be identified.
Holyoke?
Holyoke?
The second glacier. Could this be Barnard?
Or are these Holyoke and Barnard?
Trickling waterfalls.
College Fjord:
from Left to right:
Vassar(very light not
reaching the sea),
Bryn Mawr, Smith
and Harvard.
from Left to right:
Vassar(very light not
reaching the sea),
Bryn Mawr, Smith
and Harvard.
Left to Right: Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Smith and Harvard.
Yale Glacier.
Yale Glacier and part of Harvard Glacier.
Vsssar Glacier
Wellesley Glacier.
Bryn Mawr Glacier.
Much closer to Harvard about 7:30pm. It is the only
advancing glacier. All others are receding.
advancing glacier. All others are receding.
Harvard glacier in 4 closer views.
It is also the only one actively calving.
It is also the only one actively calving.
Smith Glacier.
Bryn Mawr Glacier