Tracy Arm
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| Waters | Stephens Passage | |
| Land mass | North America | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 54 ′ N , 133 ° 17 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 5 km | |
| length | approx. 50 km | |
| Islands | Sawyer Island | |
| Tributaries | Sawyer Glacier , South Sawyer Glacier | |
 The South Sawyer Glacier at the end of the fjord |
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The Tracy Arm is a narrow fjord with steep, up to 1000 m high rock walls, glaciers and waterfalls in the US state of Alaska , 70 km south of Juneau . It is about 50 km long and 20% covered by ice. At the end of the fjord are the tongues of the two glaciers Sawyer and South Sawyer . The fjord was named after Benjamin F. Tracy , a General of the Civil War and US Secretary of the Navy .
It is located in the Tongass National Forest on the Stephens Passage , a strait in the Alexander Archipelago . In 1980 the Tracy Arm together with the parallel Endicott Arm and its surroundings with a total of over 2640 km² were declared a Wilderness Area by the Congress of the United States under the name Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness , the strictest class of nature reserves in the United States human intervention in nature is minimal.
tourism
The fjord is frequented by cruise ships and ferries on the Alaska Marine Highway in the summer, traveling south to Juneau or vice versa.
