Disenchantment Bay
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 Disenchantment Bay with Hubbard Glacier and Mount Vancouver in the background |
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| Waters | Yakutat Bay | |
| Land mass | Mainland North America | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 0 ′ N , 139 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 4 km | |
| length | approx. 16 km | |
| Tributaries | Hubbard Glacier , Russell Fjord | |
 Map of Yakutat Bay with Disenchantment Bay in the northeast |
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The Disenchantment Bay is a bay at the foot of the Saint Elias Mountains in southeastern Alaska at the transition to Panhandle . It borders in Point Latouche to Yakutat Bay , a bay of the Gulf of Alaska , and extends 16 kms to the Hubbard Glacier and the mouth of Russell Fjord to the northeast.
Captain Alessandro Malaspina , who from 1789 to 1794 led the first large Spanish research expedition in the Pacific, "Puerto del Desengano" called the bay in 1792 ( English Disenchantment Bay , dt. : Bay of disillusionment ) because they are not the hoped-for connection to the Atlantic represented . Malaspina had sailed as far as Haenke Island at the end of the bay before he found it blocked by the ice of the Hubbard Glacier.
The earthquake in Yakutat Bay in 1899, with a major quake of 8.2, caused large changes in the earth's surface in the region. A maximum uplift of 14.5 meters occurred on the west coast of Disenchantment Bay .
The break of the Hubbard Glacier on August 14, 2002, which cut off Russell Fjord from Disenchantment Bay for around a month, was the second largest man-made glacier run to date .
Web links
- Disenchantment Bay in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- NOAA Office of Coast Survey: Disenchantment Bay
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historic Earthquakes: Yakutat Bay, Alaska, 1899 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (USGS)
- ^ Second-Largest Glacial Flood Worldwide in Historic Times Occurs as Russell Lake Glacier Dam Ruptures (USGS, August 16, 2002)
