Description
Dawes Glacier is located heads at Alaska-Canada boundary, trends NW to Endicott Arm, 96 mi. NW of Sitka, Coast Mts. 15 miles long.
History
Named in 1891 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Henry Laurens Dawes, 1816-1903, lawyer and statesman from Massachusetts. The glacier was originally called "Young Glacier" in 1880 by John Muir for Reverend S. Hall Young, his companion (Young, 1915, p. 147).