Portage Glacier
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Portage Glacier is a glacier on the Kenai Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located at and trends north to Portage Lake, 6 km (4 mi) west of Whittier.
Portage Glacier was a local name first recorded in 1898 by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, so called because it is on a portage route between Prince William Sound and Turnagain Arm.