LeConte Bay
| LeConte Bay | ||
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 The mouth of the LeConte glacier in the LeConte Bay |
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| Waters | Frederick Sound | |
| Land mass | North America | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 44 ′ N , 132 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 4 km | |
| length | approx. 16 km | |
| Tributaries | LeConte glacier | |
The LeConte Bay is a bay in the Coast Mountains in the Panhandle of Alaska . It is located in the Tongass National Forest , around 27 km southeast of Petersburg , and flows into Frederick Sound . The LeConte glacier fed by the Stikine Icecap calves into the bay.
The bay was named in 1887 by Lieutenant Captain CM Thomas of the United States Navy after Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), an American geologist and professor at the University of California . The name of the Tlingit for the bay was, according to a record by John Muir from 1884, "Hutli", which in folk legends was the name of the " thunder bird ", whose wing beat produces the thunder .
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