5242 x 3493 px | 44,4 x 29,6 cm | 17,5 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
19 mai 2010
Lieu:
Inside Passage, Alaska, USA, United States, America
Informations supplémentaires:
LeConte Bay is an 810-foot-deep (247 m), six-mile-long (10 km) bay in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska, located east of Frederick Sound. The bay was named in 1887 for Joseph LeConte, then professor of geology at the University of California. According to John Muir, the local Tlingit name for the bay is Hutli, the mythical thunderbird. LeConte Bay is a very steep-sided fjord that is home to a seal rookery and the terminus of LeConte Glacier. The Inside Passage is a coastal route for oceangoing vessels along a series of passages between the Pacific coast of North America and nearby islands. Most of the route is in Alaska in the United States and British Columbia in Canada, with a small southern part in northwestern Washington state. Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The term "Inside Passage" is also often used to refer to the ocean and islands around the passage itself. The Inside Passage is also sometimes referred to as the "Inland Passage" which is in turn a reference to early explorers' quests to locate the Northwest Passage between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
