The Beauty of the Alaska Glacier Cruise
Alaska remains one of the most beautiful states in the USA. The beauty of its mountains, snow, and ocean brings in a significant number of tourists who ultimately make Alaska their vacation destination spot. In a way, Alaska has a romance about it that is missing from other vacation spots. Alaska is almost like another world compared to the rest of the United States, as it is so dissimilar than other vacation spots in the USA.
It makes perfect sense that an Alaska glacier cruise would see significant spikes in popularity among nature tourists. And this is for good reasons: getting up close and personal to the majestic sight of those amazing Alaska glaciers is what make an Alaska glacier cruise so popular.
In addition to this, the threat of Global Warming – and the subsequent increase in temperature in Alaska – has increased interest in the Alaska glacier cruise. These formations, which slowly grew over the course of millions of years, are now melting away into the ocean. This alone has fueled interest in seeing these amazing formations while it is still possible. In addition to this, Congress’s approval of drilling in ANWR has also increased nature tourism in Alaska.
What makes an Alaska glacier cruise so unique is the fact that an Alaska glacier cruise allows you to see large parts of Alaska and its coastline that are not accessible in any other manner. Alaska very much remains as uncharted today as it was one hundred years ago. To give you a rough idea of how untouched Alaska is – it supports thirty-thousand Grizzly bears when the bears are virtually completely extinct in the lower forty-eight states.
Depending on the length of the cruise, an Alaska glacier cruise could cost you anywhere between $200 and $1500. For more detailed information, contact the Alaska tourist bureau.
|
| A Deep Thaw: How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Levels? - Scientific American Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:05:22 GMT Canada.comA Deep Thaw: How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Levels?Scientific American - Sep 5, 2008By David Biello GLACIAL SPEED: Greenland may get much of the scientific attention but it is smaller glaciers such as the Columbia Glacier in Alaska pictured ...Sea level rise by 2100 'below 2m' BBC NewsSea-levels may rise upto a metre by end of 21st century: study Canada.comAn Inconvenient Truth exaggerated sea level rise Telegraph.co.ukReuters - National Geographicall 88 news articles
| | | Science: Glaciers facing massive meltdown, says UN report - New Straits Times Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:04:28 GMT Science: Glaciers facing massive meltdown, says UN reportNew Straits Times, Malaysia - Sep 6, 2008THE United Nations says swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its ...Ken Burns on vacation/location at Glacier National Park Los Angeles Timesall 2 news articles
| | | Glaciers In The Pyrenees Will Disappear In Less Than 50 Years - Science Daily (press release) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:21:38 GMT Glaciers In The Pyrenees Will Disappear In Less Than 50 YearsScience Daily (press release) - Sep 5, 20085, 2008) — Much has been said about the situation of the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, but little is known about those in the high mountain areas of ...
| | | Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study - AFP Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:01:16 GMT AFPPyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish studyAFP - Sep 5, 2008MADRID (AFP) — Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday. ...
| | | The glacial pace of sea-level rise - ScienceBlogs Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:26:03 GMT ScienceBlogsThe glacial pace of sea-level riseScienceBlogs - 9 hours agoFlow velocities of Greenland's ocean-ending outlet glaciers would have to be 49 kilometers per year, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today" ...in ...The future of Earth's seas changes with the research tides USA Todayall 2 news articles
| | | Letter: Hydrology ignored in letter - Mercury-Register Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:14:54 GMT Letter: Hydrology ignored in letterMercury-Register, CA - 19 hours agoIn the Earth's temperate zones the lower edge of glaciers melt while still on land and this "melt" water returns to the sea through rivers. ...
| | | Glaciers need closer watch in poor countries - UNEP - Reuters South Africa Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:49:40 GMT Glaciers need closer watch in poor countries - UNEPReuters South Africa, South Africa - Sep 1, 2008Experts from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) said while there has been excellent monitoring of glacial ...
| | | Hot Spot - Baltimore Sun Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:24:57 GMT Hot SpotBaltimore Sun, United States - 19 hours agoThe state offers glaciers, fjords, lakes, mountains, parks, Native American culture and wildlife, to name just a few of the tourist draws. ...
| | | Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets - AFP Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:01:24 GMT AFPMelting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secretsAFP - Sep 4, 2008But it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier. So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone ...
| | | Global sea-rise levels by 2100 maybe lower than predicted - Newspost Online Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:40:04 GMT Global sea-rise levels by 2100 maybe lower than predictedNewspost Online, India - 14 hours ago“For Greenland alone to raise sea level by two meters by 2100, all of the outlet glaciers involved would need to move more than three times faster than the ...
| |
|
|
|
