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Tracy Arm is a fjord in the U.S. state of Alaska near Juneau (outlet at 57° 46' 40" N 133° 37' 0" W). It is named after the Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy.It is located about 45 miles (72 km) south of Juneau and 70 miles (110 km) north of Petersburg, Alaska, off of Holkham Bay and adjacent to Stephens Passage within the Tongass National Forest.
Map of Holkham Bay showing principal mines. The land surrounding Holkham Bay was inhabited by Tlingit people, along with much of the rest of Southeast Alaska. [5] European discovery and its modern name came in 1794 after Joseph Whidbey, exploring as part of the Vancouver Expedition, reported the bay upon his return to George Vancouver. [1]
Endicott River Wilderness is a 98,729-acre (39,954 ha) wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska.Designated by the United States Congress in 1980 in a provision of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, it is located within the Tongass National Forest and is bordered by Glacier Bay Wilderness within Glacier Bay National Park on the west.
Precipitation runoff and glacial meltwater from the mountain drains to Tracy Arm and Endicott Arm. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 6,666 feet (2,032 m) above tidewater of each arm in 4.5 miles (7.2 km).
The Endicott Mountains are separated from the mountains north of the Schwatka by Lucky Six Creek, Gull Pass, Gull Creek, a portion of the Alatna River and the Killik River. From south to north the Endicott Mountains present long, broad glaciated valleys with rounded hills between rising in the center of the range to steep tors and aretes.
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The Hudson River fjord in New York is recognized as the only true Fjord in the eastern coast of the United States [1] [2] Somes Sound, a fjard located within Acadia National Park, is often mistaken for being another fjord located along the eastern coast of the United States. [3] [4]
The Endicott River [pronunciation?] is a stream, 25 miles (40 km) long, in Haines Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Beginning at the base of an unnamed glacier near Mount Young in the Chilkat Range , it flows generally eastward into the Lynn Canal . [ 3 ]