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Downer Glacier

glacier in the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5303115 ↗
Source-derived summary

Downer Glacier is a 2.6-mile-long (4.2 km) glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Trends west with a length of 2.6 mi (4.2 km), in Kora Keen Range, 46 mi (74 km) northwest of Valdez. It was named in 1910 by Lawrence Martin for the Milwaukee-Downer College for Women in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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“Downer Glacier” enters the record as glacier in the United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Downer, Glacier and glacier can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Downer, Glacier and glacier.
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“Downer Glacier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Downer, Glacier and glacier provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5303115. Authority coordinates are 61.274, -147.613. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910.

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This entry incorporates text from “Downer Glacier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.