This Alaskan bay is both a a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site and within a World Biosphere Reserve. Glacier Bay also is part of Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve. It has a surface area of 3,283,000 acres. The first recorded visit of Glacier Bay came in 1741 with Russian explorers Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov. The entirely of Glacier Bay was covered with a massive single glacier about 250 years ago.
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