Hubbard Glacier

Hubbard Glacier is one of the most famous tidewater glaciers in North America, located in southeast Alaska and extending into Yukon, Canada.

Stretching approximately 122 km/76 miles from its origin to its terminus at Disenchantment Bay, it is notable for its advancing behavior — thickening and moving forward despite widespread glacier retreat in nearby regions.

Hubbard has periodically blocked the entrance to Russell Fiord, turning it temporarily into a lake, before the dam of ice and moraine gives way, releasing large outburst floods.

The glacier’s face at the waterline is several miles wide and hundreds of feet tall, producing massive ice-calving events that make it a dramatic natural attraction.