Lituya Bay
Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
- Type: 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”, and “Zaliv L’tua”
Lituya Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Hoonah-Angoon, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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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: “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: “Bahia de Lituya”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Lituya”
- Spanish: “Bahia lituya”
- Spanish: “Bahía Lituya”
- Vietnamese: “Vịnh Lituya”
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