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  2. www.nps.gov › glba › learnHistory & Culture - Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve (U.S ...

    Nov 7, 2022 · Captain George Vancouver had sailed the area in 1794, and created a rough map that showed the bay filled with a single great glacier. Eighty-five years after Vancouver, naturalist/preservationist John Muir had visited the bay by canoe, and found the glacier receding as fast as a mile per year.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Glace_BayGlace Bay - Wikipedia

    History. As early as the 1720s, the French inhabited the area to supply Fortress of Louisbourg with coal. [1] . They named the location baie de Glace (literally, Bay of Ice) because of the sea ice which filled the ocean each winter.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Glacier_Bay_National_ParkGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

    Glacier Bay became part of a binational UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, and was inscribed as a Biosphere Reserve in 1986. The National Park Service undertook an obligation to work with Hoonah and Yakutat Tlingit Native American organizations in the management of the protected area in 1994. [6]

  6. www.nps.gov › parkhistory › online_booksGLACIER BAY - U.S. National Park Service

    Sep 24, 2000 · In the first period, from John Muir's visit in 1879 through the mid-1930s, Glacier Bay National Monument's thrilling glacier scenery and interest to science became its defining features. Steamship excursions to the Muir Glacier in the 1880s and 1890s laid the foundation for a later tourist industry.

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  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Marconi_and_MarconiMarconi and Marconi Wireless Station National Historic Sites

    Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902.

  9. www.nps.gov › glba › learn1980: From Monument to Park - Glacier Bay National Park ...

    Jan 13, 2022 · In 1992 Glacier Bay became part of an international World Heritage Site, along with neighboring Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Canada’s Kluane National Park. In the nearly 75 years since Calvin Coolidge took up his pen, the forces of controversy and compromise have forged a mature national park, which nonetheless continues to evolve.