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Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980, enlarged and designated as the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, covering an area of ...
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 26, 1925. [ 4] Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the Alaska ...
Logan Glacier. Malaspina Glacier. Margerie Glacier - Glacier Bay. Martin River Glacier. Matanuska Glacier and peaks of the Chugach Mountains. Matanuska Glacier. McBride Glacier - Glacier Bay. McCall Glacier (Alaska) - Brooks Range, Romanzoff Mountains. McCarty Glacier - Kenai Peninsula/Harding Icefield.
The most popular way to see Glacier Bay is by boat. Peter Christian, chief spokesperson for Public Affairs for the National Park Service’s Alaska region, said highly regulated cruise ships "go ...
Cenotaph Island in Lituya Bay. The smaller Cascade and Crillon glaciers and the larger Lituya Glacier all spill into Lituya Bay, which is a part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Cenotaph Island is located roughly in the middle of the bay. The entrance of the bay is approximately 500 m (0.31 mi) wide, with a narrow navigable channel. [3]
Excursion Inlet was originally an Alaska Native settlement, one of several locations where the Huna Tlingit [7] dispersed around 1750 (Little Ice Age) when the glaciers of present day Glacier Bay Basin advanced into Icy Strait. [8] Excursion Inlet has had a fishing cannery since 1891. The current plant, constructed in 1918, still functions to ...
Laurentide ice sheet. The maximum extent of glacial ice in the north polar area during the Pleistocene period included the vast Laurentide ice sheet in eastern North America. The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States ...
Grand Pacific Glacier is a 25 km (16 mi) long glacier in British Columbia and Alaska.It begins in Glacier Bay National Park in the St. Elias Mountains, 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Mount Hay, trends east into the Grand Pacific Pass area of British Columbia, and then southeast to the head of Tarr Inlet at Alaska-Canada boundary, 68 miles (109 km) west of Skagway.