LeConte Bay

Mouth of the LeConte Glacier in LeConte Bay

The LeConte Bay is a bay in the Coast Mountains in the panhandle of Alaska. It is located in the Tongass National Forest, approximately 27 km southeast of Petersburg, and empties into the Frederick Sound. The fed from the Stikine Icecap LeConte Glacier calving into the bay.

Was named the bay in 1887 by Lieutenant CM Thomas of the United States Navy by Joseph LeConte ( 1823-1901 ), an American geologist and professor at the University of California. The name of the Tlingit for the bay was after a recording of John Muir from the 1884 " Hutli " what in the legendary world of the people the name of the " thunder bird " was whose flapping wings produced the thunder.