Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

The first recorded charting of the area was done in 1794 by George Vancouver, in which he showed the bay being a small indentation in the Icy Strait with a gigantic glacier stretching off to the horizon.

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Landsat data and USGS NED data coregistration provided by the Landsat Project Science Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Published December 7, 2003

Source:

Landsat 7 > ETM+

Collection:

U.S. National Parks