Scenic Cruising Glacier Bay National ParkCloistered in the rocky recesses of Alaska, Glacier Bay is a world still emerging from the Ice Age. Sixteen dazzling tidewater glaciers creep back and forth by millimeters, chiseling great masses of moraine onto their pristine surfaces.
From its source on Mount Logan in the Yukon territory, Hubbard Glacier stretches 76 miles to the sea at Yakutat and Disenchantment Bays. It is the
longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, with an open calving face over six miles wide.Hubbard is one of a type of glacier found in the United States only in Alaska - a tidewater glacier. These glaciers calve when giant pieces of ice crack off the head of the glacier and fall into the sea. Hubbard's calving has produced the slurry of ice seen in these photos as well as the growing mass of ice bergs collecting behind the constriction at the head of Russell Fiord/Lake.
While the faces of most glaciers advance very slowly if at all, Hubbard is an exception.
Gallery of Hubbard Glacier Photos
More photos of Hubbard Glacier
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