Glacier Bay's National Park Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Glacier Bay National Park (Alaska) became a National Park on December 2, 1980. Card Blueprints uses December 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1980 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-diamonds.

December 2 Alaska cluster

Glacier Bay is one of seven current Alaska National Parks established as parks on December 2, 1980 (ANILCA), with Gates of the Arctic, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Wrangell–St. Elias. Denali is not in this cluster: its National Park date remains February 26, 1917.

Parks that share December 2

• Gates of the Arctic — December 2, 1980
• Katmai — December 2, 1980
• Kenai Fjords — December 2, 1980
• Kobuk Valley — December 2, 1980
• Lake Clark — December 2, 1980
• Wrangell–St. Elias — December 2, 1980

Other parks on the 3 of Diamonds

• Gates of the Arctic — 3 of Diamonds
• Katmai — 3 of Diamonds
• Kenai Fjords — 3 of Diamonds
• Kobuk Valley — 3 of Diamonds
• Lake Clark — 3 of Diamonds
• Wrangell–St. Elias — 3 of Diamonds
• Gateway Arch — 3 of Diamonds

Glacier Bay on the record

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a national park of the United States located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 26, 1925. Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) enlarged the national monument by 523,000 acres (817.2 sq mi; 2,116.5 km2) on December 2, 1980, and created Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The national preserve encompasses 58,406 acres (91.3 sq mi; 236.4 km2) of public land to the immediate northwest of the park, protecting a portion of the Alsek River with its fish and wildlife habitats, while allowing sport hunting. Glacier Bay became part of a binational UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, and was inscribed as a Biosphere Reserve in 1986. The National Park Service undertook an obligation to work with Hoonah and Yakutat Tlingit Native American organizations in the management of the protected area in 1994. The park and preserve cover a total of 3,223,384 acres (5,037 sq mi; 13,045 km2), with 2,770,000 acres (4,328 sq mi; 11,210 km2) being designated as a wilderness area.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. National Park establishment dates come from the Wikipedia list column and NPS Park Anniversaries, not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Glacier Bay use?

December 2, 1980 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Glacier Bay's National Park birth card?

The 3 of Diamonds. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the park.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: Wikipedia List of national parks of the United States, Date established as park. Footnotes: NPS Park Anniversaries. NPS Park Anniversaries lists Glacier Bay National Monument (1925-02-26) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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