Glacier

Johns Hopkins Glacier

Mile-wide tidewater glacier filling the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, with seals on the ice.

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve · NPS

Glacier type: Tidewater
Length: 12 mi
Status trend: Unknown
Viewing access: Boat
Calving activity: Calving into Johns Hopkins Inlet; harbor seals haul out on the ice.

Johns Hopkins Glacier fills the end of Johns Hopkins Inlet in the far northwest of Glacier Bay. Its face is about a mile wide and 250 feet above the waterline, extending about 200 feet below the sea to an underwater moraine. Fed by tributary glaciers, it runs about 12 miles from the Fairweather peaks, and dark medial moraines stripe the ice. Kittiwakes feed where meltwater upwells at the face, and harbor seals rest on icebergs throughout the inlet.