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Read about glaciers west of the bay here, and about the glaciers around the bay’s East Arm here. In Glacier Bay National Park, the rugged landscape of water, ice, and life is in flux. Icebergs tumble from the fronts of glaciers, and plants are filling in where ice once covered the ground.
Lofty mountain peaks, ice-sculpted fjords, an abundance of marine wildlife, and massive tidewater glaciers have made Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve one of Alaska's most spectacular settings. The 3.3-million-acre park is a must-stop for every cruise ship sailing through the Inside Passage.
Map of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve occupies the northernmost section of the southeastern Alaska coastline, between the Gulf of Alaska and Canada.
21 Σεπ 2022 · Southeast Alaskan Wilderness. Covering 3.3 million acres of rugged mountains, dynamic glaciers, temperate rainforest, wild coastlines and deep sheltered fjords, Glacier Bay National Park is a highlight of Alaska's Inside Passage and part of a 25-million acre World Heritage Site—one of the world’s largest international protected areas.
Pictures of, from, or near Glacier Bay National Park. Powerful trip planning tools and high quality maps. USGS and USFS topos, aerial imagery, printing to geospatial PDFs, exporting to KMZ and MBTiles.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, located in southeast Alaska, can only be reached by plane or boat. It was by boat that Captain George Vancouver first charted this region in 1794. At that time, Glacier Bay was covered by a massive glacier extending 100 miles to the north, 20 miles across and more than 4,000 feet high in some places.
17 Ιουν 2022 · Part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, which lies along the coast of southeast Alaska, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Zoom in to see this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more about the features in it.
