LeConte Glacier

6-8 hour sightseeing glacier tour. With option to stop and visit Petersburg, AK (Little Norway).

Glacier Experience

LeConte is the most southern tidewater glacier in North America and resides in a 12-mile long fjord, which is a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs. Glaciers are frozen rivers of ice that grow and recede and dramatically change the surrounding landscape.

Legend has it that the Tlingits named the glacier “Huti” after a mythical bird whose flapping wings sounded like thunder, which is exactly the sound of calving, when enormous chunks of ice break away from the glacier and plummet into the sea.

Wildlife

Along with icebergs, passengers can expect to see bald eagles soaring overhead and seals and their pups sunning themselves as they float by on chunks of ice.

Ice

LeConte extends 500-700 feet below the surface of the water, calving can happen below the water which results in icebergs rapidly ascending from the depths of the bay.