Johns Hopkins Inlet
| Johns Hopkins Inlet | ||
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 The Johns Hopkins Glacier and Inlet |
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| Waters | Glacier Bay , Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | North America | |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 53 '23 " N , 137 ° 2' 36" W | |
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| Tributaries | Johns Hopkins Glacier | |
 The inlet with the glacier in the background |
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The Johns Hopkins Inlet is a bay at the mouth of the Johns Hopkins Glacier in the Panhandle in southeast Alaska . It is located in Glacier Bay National Park south of the Tarr Inlet .
In 1893, when the Grand Pacific Glacier protruded significantly further into Glacier Bay than it does today, the bay was named “Reid Inlet” by the United States Geological Survey . With the retreat of the glacier in the following decades, the bay split into two arms: Tarr Inlet in the north and the bay to the west, still known as Reid Inlet . With the further retreat of the Johns Hopkins Glacier and the associated lengthening of the bay, the connection by name to the Reid Glacier further south, which flows into the main arm of the bay, became less and less meaningful and in 1954 the Board on Geographic Names decided to change it to Common name today "Johns Hopkins Inlet".
