Description
Mendenhall Glacier is located heads just N of Mendenhall Towers and trends S to its terminus (1962) at Mendenhall Lake, 10 mi. NW of Juneau, Coast Mts.
History
The feature was called Auk Glacier by John Muir in 1879, and this name was used by the early miners (DeArmond, 1957, p. 31). U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) renamed the for its Superintendent, Prof. Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, 1841-1924, in 1892.