Portage Glacier, Alaska

Portage Glacier is located on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska and is included within the Chugach National Forest. It is located south of Portage Lake and 4 miles (6 km) west of Whittier. Portage Glacier was a local name first recorded in 1898 by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, so called because it is on a portage route between Prince William Sound and Turnagain Arm. Portage Glacier feeds Portage Lake (705 feet, 215 meters) from the southwest where it flows from Carpathian Peak (4,501 feet, 1,372 meters) pictured here.