Lituya Bay

Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of . It is 14.5 km long and 3.2 km wide at its widest point. The bay was noted in 1786 by Jean-François de Lapérouse, who named it Port des Français.
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  • Bay
  • Description: fjord on the southeast coast of Alaska, United States
  • Also known as
    “Alituya Bay”
    “Altona Bay”
    “Altuya Bay”
    “Busen Altua”
    “Entrada de Aragon”
    “Frenchman’s Bay”
    “Frenchmen’s Bay”
    “H’lit-tu-yah”
    “L’tooa Bay”
    “Lina Bay”
    “Ltu’a”
    “Ltua Bay”
    “Ltuya Bay”
    “Port des Francais”
    “Port Frantsuzov”
    “Skecter Bay”
    “Zaliv Altua”
    “Zaliv L’tua”
  • Category: body of water
  • Location
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Latitude
58.63694° or 58° 38′ 13″ north
Longitude
-137.57306° or 137° 34′ 23″ west
Open location code
94C4JCPG+QQ
Geo­Names ID
5555204
Wiki­data ID
Q1086178

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Lituya Bay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lituya Bay”
  • Chinese: “利圖亞灣”
  • Czech: “Lituya Bay”
  • Dutch: “Lituya Bay”
  • Finnish: “Lituya Bay”
  • French: “Baie Lituya”
  • French: “Lituya Bay”
  • French: “Lituya”
  • German: “Lituya Bay”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ ליטויה”
  • Hungarian: “Lituya-öböl”
  • Italian: “Baia di Lituya”
  • Italian: “Lituya Bay”
  • Italian: “Lituya”
  • Japanese: “リツヤ湾”
  • Korean: “리투야만”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lituyafjorden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lituyafjorden”
  • Norwegian: “Lituyabukten”
  • Persian: “خلیج لیتویا”
  • Persian: “زمین‌لرزه آلاسکا (۱۹۵۸ میلادی)”
  • Polish: “Lituya Bay”
  • Polish: “Megatsunami w Zatoce Lituya”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Lituya”
  • Portuguese: “Baía Lituya”
  • Romanian: “Golful Lituya”
  • Russian: “Литуйя”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Lituya”
  • Spanish: “Bahía Lituya”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Lituya”

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