Knife Point Glacier

{{Short description|Glacier in Wyoming, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2013}}

{{Infobox glacier

| name = Knife Point Glacier

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| type = Mountain glacier

| location = Fremont County, Wyoming, USA

| map = USA Wyoming

| label_position = right

| map_size = 225

| coordinates = {{coord|43|06|41|N|109|34|39|W|region:US-WY|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=1600749|name=Knife Point Glacier|accessdate=2012-08-26}}

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| length = {{convert|.9|mi|km|abbr=on}}

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| terminus = Talus

| status = Retreating

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Knife Point Glacier is on the east side Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The glacier is in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest, and is among the largest grouping of glaciers in the American Rocky Mountains. Knife Point Glacier flows to the north and starts below the summit of Knife Point Mountain ({{convert|13001|mi|km|abbr=on}}).{{Cite map|publisher=TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps)|title=Fremont Peak South, WY|url=http://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=43.11134&lon=-109.57737&datum=nad83&zoom=4|accessdate=2012-08-26}}

Along with other glaciers in the Wind River Range, Knife Point Glacier's rapid retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 has exposed the remains of numerous specimens of the now believed to be extinct Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) and other related species.{{cite journal|last=Lockwood|first=Jeffrey A.|author2=Craig D. Thompson |author3=Larry D. Debrey |author4=Charles M. Love |author5=Richard A. Nunamaker |author6=Robert E. Pfadt |title=Preserved Grasshopper Fauna of Knife Point Glacier, Fremont County, Wyoming, U.S.A.|journal=Arctic and Alpine Research|volume=23|issue=1|pages=108–114|publisher=Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 23, No. 1|date=February 1991|doi=10.2307/1551444|jstor=1551444|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=entomologyother}}