Lituya Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at inside Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, its source is in the Fairweather Range and it feeds into Lituya Bay …

Nov 22, 2020 · Eyewitness reports describe a chaotic and surreal scene: Intense shaking for several minutes, an explosive boom, and a shattered glacier soaring hundreds of feet into the …

Near the crest of the Fairweather Mountains sit the Lituya and the North Crillon glaciers. They are each about 12 miles (19 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide with an elevation of 4,000 feet …

Aug 29, 2023 · Lituya Bay is in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and Gilbert Inlet is on the north shore at the eastern end of the bay. The inlet was named in 1937 for Grove Karl Gilbert …

Lituya Bay has a history of large landslides and giant waves. Tlingit oral tradition tells of an entire village that was swept away and physical evidence shows that at least three landslide …

Oct 5, 2020 · Like most jökulhlaups, it appears that this massive outburst flood traveled underneath the Lituya Glacier, emerging from under the glacier’s south end onto the gravel …

Lituya Bay (/ l ɪ ˈ tj uː j ə /; Tlingit: Ltu.aa, [1] meaning 'lake within the point') [2] is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 14.5 km (9 mi) long and 3.2 …

3 days ago · Yet, Lituya Glacier, which dams the lake, had a median surface lowering of ∼50 m between 1977 and 2019, and the annual maximum lake levels dropped by 110 m since 1985 …

Pictures of, from, or near Lituya Glacier. Alaska Guide Co is based in Valdez, Alaska. We offer year round tours and seek to provide helpful information on all things Alaska outdoors related.

Dec 18, 2018 · “Lituya is a compound word in the Tlingit language meaning “the lake within the point,” and the place is so called from the almost enclosed water within the extended spit of …