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Entering Glacier Bay: Icy Strait<br> Alaska picture - This calm, iceless expanse once marked the end of the great glacier which covered Glacier Bay. In the late eighteenth century Captain Cook sailed right by. Two decades later, in 1794, Captain Vancouver reported the present entrance to Glacier Bay as ice, and left the entire extent of Bay uncharted.
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This calm, iceless expanse once marked the end of the great glacier which covered Glacier Bay. In the late eighteenth century Captain Cook sailed right by. Two decades later, in 1794, Captain Vancouver reported the present entrance to Glacier Bay as ice, and left the entire extent of Bay uncharted.
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