Lituya Glacier

Lituya Glacier is a tidewater glacier in southeast Alaska within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, descending from the Fairweather Range to Lituya Bay on the Gulf of Alaska. Its advance and retreat helped carve the bay’s striking form, including steep walls, a deep submerged basin, and a narrow opening to the sea. That unusual landscape was central to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the event for which the bay is most famous. The glacier also gave its name to the Alaska Marine Highway ferry M/V Lituya. It remains part of a remarkable coastal setting shaped by the interaction of ice, mountains, and enclosed water.

Elfin Cove, Alaska · United States