Description
Reid Glacier is located heads 2 mi. SW of Contact Nunatak, trends N to Reid Inlet, 2 mi. S of Glacier Bay, in Glacier Bay National Monument, 72 mi. NW of Hoonah, St. Elias Mts.
History
Named by members of the Harriman Expedition in 1899 (Gilbert, 1910, v. 3, p. 25) for Harry Fielding Reid, 1859-1943, geologist and professor at the Case School of Applied Sciences and Johns Hopkins University, who visited Glacier Bay in 1890 and 1892, and made a study of the glaciers in the area.