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After an August 10, 2025 landslide above South Sawyer Glacier sent a wave a quarter-mile up the opposite fjord wall, major cruise lines replaced Tracy Arm with Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier for the 2026 season.
The 600-foot-tall, mile-wide face of Dawes Glacier regularly calves ice with a rumble locals call white thunder.
Endicott Arm is a 30-mile fjord snaking through the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness in Southeast Alaska.
The Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, containing both Tracy and Endicott Arms, spans 656,000 acres and was designated on December 2, 1980 — permanent ice covers about one-fifth of it.
Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier are breeding grounds for harbor seals, whose pups rest on the floating ice in spring.