Lituya Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at 58°43′25″N137°29′33″W / 58.72361°N 137.49250°W / 58.72361; -137.49250 inside Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, its source is in the Fairweather Range and it feeds into Lituya Bay on the gulf coast of Southeast Alaska.
It is partially responsible for creating the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami. The glacier, which has receded over the years, carved Lituya Bay into a unique topographic phenomenon with steep walls, a very deep submerged bottom, and a very narrow entrance to the ocean which created the opportunity for a megatsunami to occur.
The glacier is also the namesake of the Alaska Marine Highway ferry M/V Lituya.
a subglacial lake, located northwest of the bend in the LituyaGlacier at the head of Lituya Bay, had dropped 100 ft (30 m). This proposed another possible...
LituyaGlacier is a tidewater glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at 58°43′25″N 137°29′33″W / 58.72361°N 137.49250°W / 58.72361; -137.49250...
smaller Cascade and Crillon glaciers and the larger LituyaGlacier all spill into Lituya Bay, which is a part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve...
Range of Alaska, the United States Lituya Glacier, tidewater glacier in Alaska, the United States MV Lituya, shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway...
Fairweather Glacier; this flows almost to the Pacific coast at Cape Fairweather. The LituyaGlacier flows from the south side of the mountain into Lituya Bay...
Marine Highway ferries are named after Alaskan glaciers. Lituya is named for the LituyaGlacier near Lituya Bay. She received her name through an essay contest...
broke and uplifted 1,300 feet of ice along the entire front face of the LituyaGlacier at the north end of Gilbert Inlet. Also, the impact and the sediment...
LeConte Glacier La Perouse Glacier - Glacier Bay LituyaGlacier Logan Glacier Malaspina Glacier Margerie Glacier - Glacier Bay Martin River Glacier Matanuska...
Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury, and trends east to the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the terminus of Clark Glacier on...
unweaned harbor seal pups. The Johns Hopkins Glacier rises from the Fairweather Range on the east slopes of Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury and has an...
Moore made the 80 km (50 mi) round trip to fetch them from Lituya Bay. They ascended the glacier from base camp and setup camp at 1,520 m (4,987 ft) on the...
by floods, volcanic activity, or tsunamis. Steven Dutch, Giant Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska Archived 2007-06-16 at the Wayback Machine USGS PP 354-C v t...
Canadian Heritage River. In 1958, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake centered near Lituya bay significantly changed the lay of the land. The earthquake caused the...
routes. These were the MV LeConte, the MV Fairweather and the MV Lituya. The MV Lituya is dedicated to providing day boat service between Ketchikan and...
Hopkins Glacier, which flows into Glacier Bay. On its western side is a large cirque, shared with Mount Fairweather, Mount Quincy Adams, and Lituya Mountain...
absorb. Their existence was confirmed in 1958, when a giant landslide in Lituya Bay, Alaska, caused the highest wave ever recorded, which had a height of...
largest connected bodies of water. It includes Yakutat Bay and Cross Sound. Lituya Bay (a fjord north of Cross Sound, and south of Mount Fairweather) is the...
and South Crillon Glaciers flow west from the peak toward Lituya Bay. The La Perouse Glacier flows south from the peak. The north side of the peak forms...
other possible causes. The tsunami with the highest run-up was the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, which had a record height of 524 m (1,719 ft). The only...
to the ocean: the summit is only 7.5 miles from tidewater at the head of Lituya Bay to the southwest. The first summit was achieved in 1995 by seasoned...
Pararas-Carayannis, George (1999). "The Mega-Tsunami of July 9, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska, Analysis of Mechanism". Archived from the original on July...
Eschscholtz Bay Funter Bay Glacier Bay Goodhope Bay Hazen Bay Holtz Bay Kachemak Bay Kamishak Bay Kuskokwim Bay Kvichak Bay LeConte Bay Lituya Bay Massacre Bay...
Mobile County Mon Louis Montrose Semmes La Chaussée Spit at the entrance of Lituya Bay. Named originally in charts prepared by French explorer Jean-François...
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