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Glacier Bay National Park

A landscape in fast-forward. When Captain Vancouver sailed here in 1794, Glacier Bay was a wall of ice. Today, the glaciers have retreated 65 miles, revealing fjords, mountains, and a land being reborn. The contour lines capture a landscape still being shaped by ice.

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Tidewater Glaciers

Glaciers that flow directly into the sea — calving icebergs from walls of blue ice.

Margerie Glacier

Tarr Inlet · Sea Level

A mile-wide wall of ice rising 250 feet above the water. The contour lines behind the glacier face show the massive ice field feeding it — a frozen river descending from the Fairweather Range.

Johns Hopkins Glacier

Johns Hopkins Inlet · Sea Level

The park's most active calving glacier. The inlet is often closed by icebergs. The contour lines reveal the deep fjord carved by the glacier's advance and retreat over centuries.

Muir Inlet · Sea Level

Named for John Muir, who explored it in 1879. Once the bay's dominant glacier, it has retreated dramatically. The contour lines show the newly exposed fjord walls — raw rock revealed within living memory.

Grand Pacific Glacier

Tarr Inlet · Sea Level

Straddles the US-Canada border. This glacier covered all of Glacier Bay just 250 years ago. The contour lines trace its retreat path — a geological story told in decades, not millennia.

Mountains & Fjords

The Fairweather Range rises 15,000 feet from sea level in just 15 miles — one of Earth's steepest coastal gradients.

Mount Fairweather

Highest Point · 15,325 ft

The park's highest peak — and one of the world's tallest coastal mountains. The contour lines compress with extraordinary density as the peak rises 15,000 feet in just 15 miles from the ocean.

Park HQ · Sea Level

The park's gateway — a cove that was under ice in 1750. The gently sloping contour lines here tell a story of glacial rebound — the land is still rising as the weight of ice lifts.

Reid Inlet · Sea Level

A smaller tidewater glacier in an intimate inlet. Gold prospectors once panned its outwash. The contour lines show a compact cirque feeding ice into a narrow fjord.

Beardslee Islands

Lower Bay · Sea Level

Glacially sculpted islands now covered in temperate rainforest. The contour lines show smooth, rounded terrain — glacial polish still visible in the topography 250 years after ice retreat.

A Land Still Being Made

Glacier Bay is the fastest landscape change visible to humans. In 1794, the bay was a wall of ice. By 1879, when John Muir arrived, the glaciers had retreated 48 miles. Today, they've retreated 65 miles, revealing a 1,500-square-mile fjord system. No other place on Earth shows such dramatic glacial retreat in recorded history.

Our prints render this emerging landscape from USGS elevation data. The contour lines tell a story of transformation: dense, compressed lines where glaciers still carve the mountains; smooth, rounded contours where ice retreated centuries ago; raw, angular terrain where rock was exposed within living memory.

The Heritage preset captures the feel of early Alaskan survey maps. The Ocean preset is ideal here — water fills the deep fjords that dominate the landscape. The Terrain preset reveals the extreme elevation gradient from sea level to 15,325 feet.

Every print is rendered individually for your exact coordinates. Choose a glacier, a fjord, or the full bay — no two prints are identical. Museum-quality prints from $29 with free worldwide shipping.

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