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With glaciers slowly grinding their way down from icefields and snow-capped peaks into bottomless fjords – the Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve is a geography lesson writ large. Simply put, Glacier Bay Park is vast, covering just shy of 13,000 km2 of southeast Alaska, roughly the same size as the US state of Connecticut. However, aptly enough, the park is just the tip of the iceberg as this wild giant stands shoulder to shoulder with Canadian peers, the Tatshenshini-Alsek World Heritage Site