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French explorer Jean Francois was the first known white man to land on the outer coast of what now is the park. While charting the entrance to the bay twenty-one crewmen are are lost.
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Captain George Vancouver and Lt. Joseph, describes Glacier Bay as " a compact sheet of ice as far as the eye could distinguish".
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An English Shipbuilder named Shields employed by Alexander Baranov gathers 1800 Sea Otter skin in Lituya Bay
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Lt. Charles explores the bay and climbs the mountains northeast of Mt. Fairweather. Though he does not realize it at the time, he is the first white man to see what will become known as "Glacier Bay".
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John Muir records his "discovery" of Glacier Bay. He enters in a dugout canoe guided by Tlingit Indians from Fort Wrangell.
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The Klondike Gold Rush is underway in Alaska and the Yukon.
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William begins mapping and photographing all over the glaciers
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The first glacier bay lodge was built by William S Cooper the father of Glacier Bay
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The national alaska interest lands convection signs the paper for Glacier Bay to be a national park.
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About 390,000 people have visited the National park.
