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Disenchantment Bay is a glacier-fed inlet at the head of Yakutat Bay in Alaska, running southwest from Russell Fiord to Point Latouche through an ice-dominated landscape. Alessandro Malaspina named it in 1792 from the Spanish Puerto del Desengano after hoping it might open a route toward the Northwest Passage, only to find the way blocked by ice near Haenke Island. The bay is also notable for the earthquake of September 10, 1899, when parts of it were uplifted 47 feet 4 inches, or 14.43 meters, the greatest recorded vertical displacement caused by an earthquake.
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Yakutat, Alaska · United States
