Lituya Glacier
Lituya Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 2,877 feet
- Description: glacier in the United States
- Also known as: “Desolation Glacier”
Lituya Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Hoonah-Angoon, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.72121° or 58° 43′ 16″ northLongitude
-137.44119° or 137° 26′ 28″ westElevation
2,877 feet (877 metres)Open location code
94C4PHC5+FGOpenStreetMap ID
way 959716001OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
Discover Lituya Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Lituya Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lituya Glacier”
- Chinese: “利圖亞冰河”
- French: “glacier Lituya”
- French: “Glacier Lituya”
- French: “Lituya Glacier”
- German: “Lituya-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון ליטויה”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Lituya”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lituya Glacier”. Photo: USGS, Public domain.