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Kenai Fjords National Park

Pictures by QT Luong

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[1 : Overview]
[2 : Exit Glacier Outwash Plain]
[3 : Exit Glacier from Plain]
[4 : Exit Glacier from Trail]
[5 : Exit Glacier ice details]
[6 : Marmot Meadows]
[7 : Harding Icefield Trail views]
[8 : Harding Icefield]
[9 : Aerial Views]
[10 : Aialik Bay Aerial Views]
[11 : Resurrection and Aialik Bays]
[12 : Northwestern Fjord]
[13 : Wildlife]
[14 : Structures]
[15 : People on trail]
[16 : People on boat]
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Large Format photos of Kenai Fjords National Park · Panoramic photos of Kenai Fjords National Park

Kenai Fjords, just 130 miles south of Anchorage, is made of a range of coastal mountains which slowly sink into the ocean, transforming its former glacial valleys into long fjords with rocky and steep walls. More than half of the park is covered by the Harding ice field, a vestige of the huge ice sheet that covered Alaska during the last glacial age. The largest ice field in North America, it is at some places more than one mile thick. Like islands in a sea of ice, only the top of mountain peaks, called nunataks, emerge from the vast icy expense.

Only one small section of the park can be reached by the road, the Exit glacier. The short trail to the bottom of the glacier is one of the best places in the world to witness glacial retreat. On each of my four park visits spanning the years 2000 to 2016, the glacier's front occupied a significantly different position. Although I hiked the longer trail along the glacier to the Harding field from which it spills, I found that the best way to judge the immensity of that icefield is to see it from a scenic flight, which I have done from an airplane and from an helicopter. On the cruise up the fjords I got a glimpse of the abundant shorebirds and marine life, as well as a few tidewater glaciers.

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Mountains and glacier reflected in Resurrection River. Kenai Fjords National Park (Panoramic color) Frozen glacial pond and front of Exit Glacier, 2000, early morning. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Front of Exit Glacier, 2016. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Glacial stream and Exit Glacier, 2000. Kenai Fjords National Park (Panoramic color) Iceberg, glacial stream, Exit Glacier terminus, 2016. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Glacial ice detail at the terminus of Exit Glacier. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Two ice colors on Exit Glacier. Kenai Fjords National Park (Panoramic color) Exit Glacier above trees in autumn foliage. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Stream and trees in autumn foliage, Exit Glacier outwash plain. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Lupine, buttercups, and rocky ridge. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Wildflowers at Marmot Meadows, and Exit Glacier. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Resurrection Mountains emerging from clouds at sunset. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Hiker standing on overlook above Harding icefield. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Harding Icefield and clouds, sunset. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Aerial view of Harding icefield and Nunataks. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Aerial View of Holgate Glacier and Holgate Arm. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Aerial View of Pedersen Lagoon and Glacier. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Aerial View of backlit icebergs in Bear Glacier Lagoon. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Peaks and fog. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Rocky islet and snowy peaks, Aialik Bay. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Islands in Aialik Bay. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Icebergs in Northwestern Lagoon, Northwestern Fjord. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Northwestern tidewater glacier and steep cliffs, Northwestern Fjord. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Waterfall, Cataract Cove, Northwestern Fjord. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Rock with cormorant and sea lions in Aialik Bay. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color) Whale fluke and forest, Aialik Bay. Kenai Fjords National Park ( color)
There are 26 color pictures on this page out of 270 color pictures of Kenai Fjords.