Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008, 00:00
The Glacier Bay National Park is a 3.3 million acre wilderness area encircling the magnificent saltwater Glacier Bay.
Glacier Bay lies north of Juneau, Alaska, just 8 miles from the settlement of Gustavus. The area has been home to the Tlingit Indians for aeons. They moved on during periods when large glaciers advanced over the lands, but between times they survived here on salmon, seals, foraged berries and roots.
European explorers found “Icy Strait” choked with ice in the late 1700s. When naturalist adventurer John Muir rediscovered the bay in 1879, the ice had already retreated to the mouth of Glacier Bay. This was the fastest recorded retreat of a glacier in our known history.
Tourists soon began to visit ... Glacier Bay was declared a national monument in 1925 and is now also a World Heritage Site. The Glacier Bay National Park features a glorious array of fauna and flora which has established itself in the wake of the retreating glaciers. The snow covered peaks of the Fairweather mountains, which lie between the coastline and the banks of Glacier Bay, give rise to the park’s largest glaciers.
The Glacier Bay National Park forms part of the largest internationally protected area in the world. The St. Elias Mountains at the north of the park stretches up into the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia.
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