Map artist Gilbert Thompson drew the map showing the Hubbard and Turner Glaciers at the head of Disenchantment Bay, near Yakutat. The map is based on surveys made by Henry Gannett on June 21 and ...

Yakutat Bay and the area around it was part of the 263 miles of land owned by the Tlingit people. The area they owned was from Katalla to Lituya Bay. The land was owned by five clans.

The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center’s Yakutat Seal Camps project is a multidisciplinary study of 900 years of interaction between people, seals and glaciers at Yakutat Bay, Alaska. Join us for ...

More than a century ago, eight prospectors were panning the glacial sands near Hubbard Glacier when the earth starting shaking and never seemed to stop. A few days later, they had survived a ...