Nature
Icy Bay, known in Tlingit as Lig̲aasi Áa, is a broad bay on Alaska’s Gulf coast in the Yakutat area within the Wrangell–Saint Elias Wilderness. It is a notably young landscape formed within the last century as the Guyot, Yahtse, and Tyndall Glaciers retreated, turning a glacier-blocked coast into a multi-armed bay more than 30 miles long. The bay is also tied to a major geologic disaster: in 2015, a mountainside collapse at Taan Fiord sent vast rock into the fjord and triggered a megatsunami. With no one present, there were no deaths, but the event dramatically altered shorelines and highlighted the powerful effects of glacial retreat.
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Yakutat, Alaska · United States
