Alaskan Sunset
by Marilyn Wilson
Title
Alaskan Sunset
Artist
Marilyn Wilson
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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This sunset photo was taken while leaving Glacier Bay, from the deck of the Holland America cruise ship, the Volendam. The Alaskan coastline is in the background.
Some interesting facts about Glacier Bay:
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is located in Alaska on the Pacific coast. In the northwest, the park borders on the Gulf of Alaska. In the south, the Icy Strait and Cross Sound surround the park. To the East is the Canadian province of British Columbia. The park is bigger than the state of Connecticut, but it contains less than one percent of Alaska's land mass.
The Alaska-Canada border crosses right through the tallest peak in the park at the top of Mount Fairweather.
Glacier Bay is the largest protected marine sanctuary in the world.
Glacier Bay tides can change as much as 25 feet from high to low tide.
During the Pleistocene era, the Great Ice Age, a 5000 foot thick sheet of ice covered the area of southern Alaska.
The most recent advance of the ice sheet occurred between 500 and 200 years ago.
Glacial ice acts like a prism when sunlight hit it, and separating the light by its wave length. The tightly packed crystals under the surface of glaciers often appear blue.
The ice in parts of Glacier Bay National Park is so thick and heavy it has pushed the earth's crust deeper into the mantle. As the ice melts, parts of the earth in this area rise more than 1 inch per year.
Glacier Bay National Park has the only glacier in the continental US that flows directly into the Pacific Ocean.
The glacial ice breaking off and calving into Glacier Bay is on average 200 years old.
Since they were first discovered in 1796, the glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park are retreating faster than anywhere in the world.
(from: https://sites.google.com/site/glacierbaynp/home/interesting-facts)
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May 18th, 2014
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