glacier bay national park By Gracie k 1741 Russian explorer Alexai Ilich Chirikof sights the Fairweather mountain range. 1786 French explorer Jean Fracois, 1st white man to land on the outer coast of what is now the park 1799 Barnov establishes Sitka as a white settlement and capital of Russian America. 1880 Captain Lester S. Beardslee gave the it the name glacier bay 1898 The Klondike gold rush is underway in Alaska and the Yukon 1958 An 8.0 earthquake along fairweather fault creates massive wave that destroys Lituya Bay. 1960 Cruise ships are now entering Glacier Bay Dec 2, 1980 Glacier Bay became a national park. 1995 Glacier Bay National Park services and Hoonah Tlingits tribe establish a working relationship. 2000 About 390,000 people have visited Glacier Bay national park.
