![]() NPS Photo Elevation: 11,924 ft.Name published in Russian by Capt. Tebenkov (1852, map 8), IRN as "G(ora) L'tua " meaning "Lituya Mountain;" named for Lituya Bay. “Lituya is a compound word in the Tlingit language meaning “the lake within the point,” and the place is so called from the almost enclosed water within the extended spit of Lituya Bay. On the maps of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears variously as Port Francaise, Altona, Alituya, Ltooa, as well as Lituya.” (Native Account of the Meeting Between La Perouse and the Tlingit, by G.T. Emmons, p 294).
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Last updated: December 18, 2018