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Glacier Bay National Park live camera — Alaska
An inlet that was buried under ice 250 years ago. Now it is a sea of sea otters and humpback whales, covered by four cameras including one on the dock.
Sample September 2026What you are looking at
An inlet in Alaska that appeared after the ice pulled back. There are four cameras, including one at the dock.
This bay was filled with ice until around 1750. The glacier has retreated more than 100 kilometres since, leaving a deep waterway behind it, and there are few documented retreats of that distance anywhere. The land is arranged by the order in which the ice left, so the head of the bay is the newest and the forest is further along near the mouth. The camera facing the dock catches boats coming and going, so the presence or absence of people gives you a rough idea of the local time. Sea otters and humpback whales have returned, and the bay is a World Heritage site together with the mountains next to it.
This is the ground of people who were pushed out when the ice advanced and who returned once it withdrew; their descendants live here still, and a tribal house was raised on the shore in 2016. The number of vessels allowed into the bay is capped, with no more than two large ships a day.
Alaska time, seventeen to eighteen hours behind Japan; around five in the morning in Japan is local midday.
The retreat is known because two visits did not agree. The ship that surveyed here in 1794 set it down as an inlet closed off by a wall of ice. When a naturalist came in in 1879, that wall had already drawn back some tens of kilometres up the bay. The difference across those eighty-five years is itself the record of the ice going.
Daylight is short in winter and it stays dim even at noon. As a still image, nothing shows in the dark hours.
About this camera
| Place | Alaska |
| Format | Still image |
| Time zone | America/Anchorage (UTC-9, DST UTC-8) |
| Category | World Heritage · Nature · Sea · Wildlife |
| Operator | U.S. National Park Service |
| Terms of use | U.S. government work |
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