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Kenai Fjords National Park is a national park of the United States that comprises the Harding Icefield, its outflowing glaciers, and coastal fjords and islands. The park covers an area of 669,984 acres (1,046.9 sq mi; 2,711.3 km 2) [1] on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, west of the town of Seward.
April 21, 1990 eruption column (to a height of about 5.6 mi (9 km)) [16] from Redoubt Volcano as viewed to the west from the Kenai Peninsula Fumaroles observed on the side of Mount Redoubt on January 31, 2009 Fumarole on March 21, 2009, the day before the eruption A plume of vapor from Mt Redoubt as seen from space on 5 May 2009.
Kenai Fjords National Park is primarily accessed by boat from Seward. Caines Head State Recreation Area is here. Many visit it by boat, but there is a trail from Lowell Point State Recreation Site, a 19-acre (7.7 ha) park with beach access and trailhead parking.
Exit Glacier is a glacier derived from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska [1] and one of Kenai Fjords National Park's major attractions. It is one of the most accessible valley glaciers in Alaska and is a visible indicator of glacial recession due to climate change.
Map of Southcentral Alaska Bear Glacier Lake and the Pacific Ocean in the Kenai Fjords. Southcentral Alaska (Russian: Юго-Центральная Аляска), also known as the Gulf Coast Region, [1] is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska consisting of the shorelines and uplands of the central Gulf of Alaska.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The area is located in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, 7 miles (11 km) south of the city of Seward. [1] A popular tourist destination, [ 2 ] Caines Head features spruce and hemlock forests [ 3 ] as well as a variety of terrestrial and marine wildlife (including harbor seals , Steller sea lions , sea otters , orcas , humpback , grey and fin whales ...
It is adjacent to Kenai Fjords National Park. This refuge was created in 1941 as the Kenai National Moose Range, but in 1980 it was changed to its present status by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The refuge is administered from offices in Soldotna. The Kenai Wilderness protects 1,354,247 acres of the refuge as wilderness ...