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HUBBARD GLACIER, ALASKA
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The largest and one of the most active tidewater glaciers in North America! |
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Visit HUBBARD GLACIER on: ALL TOUR ITINERARIES!
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Hubbard Glacier, longest tidewater glacier in North America, begins its 76 mile journey to the sea on the slopes of Mount Logan, the tallest mountain in Canada and part of the largest non-polar icefield in the world. At the point where it enters Disenchantment Bay, at the head of Yakutat Bay, it is 6 miles wide.
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Blue ice at the face of a glacier means that it is activly calving.
As Hubbard is advancing, it creaks and groans as it moves and is a very actively calving glacier. This makes for some exciting moments when the huge chunks of ice crash into the Bay creating a wonderful sound called 'white thunder' by the Tlingit people.
Situated at the head of Yakutat Bay, in Disenchantment Bay, the sail up to Hubbard is both leisurely and beautiful. Small ice bergs, sometimes with sea birds or seals resting on them, float in the water which is glacial blue. Seals calve on the ice bergs here as Orca whales do not visit the bay. Disenchantment Bay was named by the Spanish explorer Malaspina who was disenchanted that he had not found the Northwest Passage.
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