Perhaps the Disenchantment Bay in Alaska should have been called the Disappointment Bay. Here’s why. Alessandro Malaspina was a Spanish naval officer who sailed the world and mapped the west coast of North America. In 1792, he thought this was the entrance to the Northwest Passage. Instead, he encountered the Hubbard Glacier. In 1899, this bay has the distinction of the greatest vertical displacement when an earthquake made the seabed violently rise 47 feet.
