Tracy Arm

The Sawyer Glacier at the end of the fjord

The Tracy Arm is a narrow fjord with steep, up to 1000 m high rock walls, glaciers and waterfalls in the U.S. state of Alaska, 70 km south of Juneau. He is about 50 km long and covers about 20 % of ice. At the end of the fjord, the two tongues of the Sawyer Glacier, North Sawyer and South Sawyer. It was named after Benjamin F. Tracy Fjord, a general in the American Civil War and U.S. Secretary of the Navy.

It is located in the Tongass National Forest at the Stephens Passage, a strait in the Alexander Archipelago. In 1980 the Tracy Arm, together with the parallel Endicott Arm and their surroundings Terror Wilderness declared with a total of over 2640 km ² by the Congress of the United States under the name Tracy Arm - Fords for Wilderness Area, the strictest class of natural protected areas of the United States, in the human interventions in nature are minimal.

Tourism

The fjord is regularly traveled in the summer of cruise ships and the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway who are traveling on the road from south to Juneau or in the reverse direction.