Information About

Glacier Bay

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Location

58 ° 45' 38.999" N,
136 ° 20' 55" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Glacier Bay in Detail.

About

in Glacier Bay National Monument, trends N-S to Icy Strait, 18 mi. W of Juneau, St. Elias Mts. 40 miles long.

History

Named in 1880 by Captain L. A. Beardslee, U.S. Navy (USN), and published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 188). The estuary was first entered by Lieutenant C. E. S. Wood in 1877 and explored by John Muir in 1879. The historic Tlingit name, Kaasteen Gheey, refers to the name of a young Tlingit woman who was killed by a falling glacier.

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Pictures of, from, or near Glacier Bay.

Topo Maps

Mt. Fairweather D-2 (1948), Mount Fairweather D-2 (1948), Mount Fairweather D-2 (1948), Mount Fairweather D-2 (1950), Mt Fairweather (1951), Mt Fairweather (1951), Mt Fairweather (1961), Mt Fairweather (1961), Mt Fairweather (1961), Mt Fairweather (1961), Mount Fairweather D-2 SE (2017),

Places Near Glacier Bay

Bays:

Blue Mouse Cove, Charpentier Inlet, Fingers Bay, Geikie Inlet, Glacier Bay, Hugh Miller Inlet, Queen Inlet, Sebree Cove, Shag Cove, Stump Cove, Tidal Inlet, Tyndall Cove, Wachusett Inlet,

Capes:

Caroline Point, Saint James Point, Tlingit Point,

Channels:

Whidbey Passage,

Glaciers:

Andrews Glacier, Baldwin Glacier, Dying Glacier (historical), Loomis Glacier, Morse Glacier, Patton Glacier, Plateau Glacier, Twin Glacier,

Hills:

Islands:

Composite Island, Drake Island, Francis Island, Geikie Rock, Lone Island, Sebree Island, Triangle Island,

Lakes:

Vivid Lake, Wood Lake,

Mountains:

Black Cap Mountain, Mount Bulky, Mount Cadell, Contact Peak, Mount Favorite, Hugh Miller Mountain, Mount Kloh Kutz, Knob G, Marble Mountain, Mount Merriam, Pyramid Peak, Red Bed Peak, Mount Skarn, Tlingit Peak, Mount Wood, Mount Wordie,

Ridges:

Emerson Peaks, Idaho Ridge, Oberlin Ridge,

Streams:

Favorite Creek, Wood Creek,

Valleys: