The Lituya Glacier is a tidewater glacier feeding into Lituya Bay on the gulf coast of the Alaskan Panhandle and sourced in the Fairweather Range. The glacier is located at 58°44′7″N, 137°46′21″W and sits inside Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Aletsch glacier, Switzerland A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. ... Lituya Bay is a fjord (inlet) located at Latitude 58°38 North Longitude 137°34 West in Alaska. ... The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are to be found. ... The Alaska Panhandle is the coast of the American state of Alaska, just west of the Canada. ... The Saint Elias Mountains is subgroup of the Pacific Coast Ranges located in southeastern Alaska (United States), southwestern Yukon and the very far northwestern part of British Columbia (Canada). ... The area around Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925. ...

The Lituya Glaicer is partially responsible for creating the Lituya Bay megatsunami that occurred in 1958. The glacier, which has receded over the years, carved Lituya Bay into a unique topographic phenomenon with steeps walls, a very deep submerged bottom, and a very narrow entrance to the ocean which created the opportunity for a megatsunami to occur. Megatsunami (often hyphenated as mega-tsunami, also known as iminami or wave of purification) is an informal term used by popular media and popular science to describe a very large tsunami-like wave significantly beyond the size reached by tsunamis (typically around 10 meters). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The glacier is also the namesake of the Alaska Marine Highway ferry the M/V Lituya. The Alaska Marine Highway or the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) is a ferry service that is operated by the government of the state of Alaska in the United States. ... The M/V Lituya is a shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System. ...