Lituya Bay

Lituya Bay
Lituya Bay
	Oblique aerial photograph of Lituya Bay in the summer of 1958. Damage from the 1958 megatsunami appears as the lighter-colored areas on the shores where trees have been stripped away.
	Lituya Bay
Location	North Pacific Ocean
Coordinates	58°38′13″N 137°34′23″W / 58.63694°N 137.57306°W
River sources	Lituya Glacier; Cascade Glacier; Crillion Glacier;
Basin countries	United States
Max. length	14.5 km (9 mi)
Max. width	3.2 km (2 mi)

Lituya Bay (/lɪˈtjuːjə/; Tlingit: Ltu.aa,^[1] meaning 'lake within the point')^[2] is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 14.5 km (9 mi) long and 3.2 km (2 mi) wide at its widest point. The bay was noted in 1786 by Jean-François de Lapérouse, who named it Port des Français. Twenty-one of his men perished in the tidal current in the bay.

^ Teben'kov, M.D.; Translated by R.A. Pierce (1981) [1852], Atlas of the Northwest Coasts of America: From Beering Strait to Cape Corrientes and the Aleutian Islands with Several Sheets on the Northeast Coast of Asia, Kingston, Ontario: Limestone Press, p. 27, ISBN 0-919642-55-1. Spelled L'tua in translation of Tebenkov's log.
^ Emmons, G. T. (1 April 1911). "Native Account of the Meeting between La Perouse and the Tlingit". American Anthropologist. 13 (2): 294–98. doi:10.1525/aa.1911.13.2.02a00080. JSTOR 659650.

[Teben'kov-1] Teben'kov, M.D.; Translated by R.A. Pierce (1981) [1852], Atlas of the Northwest Coasts of America: From Beering Strait to Cape Corrientes and the Aleutian Islands with Several Sheets on the Northeast Coast of Asia, Kingston, Ontario: Limestone Press, p. 27, ISBN 0-919642-55-1. Spelled L'tua in translation of Tebenkov's log.

[2] Emmons, G. T. (1 April 1911). "Native Account of the Meeting between La Perouse and the Tlingit". American Anthropologist. 13 (2): 294–98. doi:10.1525/aa.1911.13.2.02a00080. JSTOR 659650.

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