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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Map. The Arctic is mostly an ocean surrounded by land. The Arctic is relatively covered by water, much of it is frozen. The glaciers and icebergs in the Arctic make up about 10% of Earth's land area. Most of the Arctic's liquid saltwater is from the Arctic Ocean's basin. Some parts of the ocean's surface are ...
This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States . [A] [ 1 ]
The Arctic is Alaska's most remote wilderness. A location in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska is 120 miles (190 km) from any town or village, the geographic point most remote from permanent habitation in the United States. With its numerous islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles (55,000 km) of tidal shoreline.
Location Date Established Area Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska December 2, 1980 [10] 3,421,420 acres (13,846.0 km 2) Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska December 2, 1980: 3,574,259 acres (14,464.51 km 2) Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska December 6, 1960 [11] 19,287,042 acres (78,051.89 km 2)
East Amatuli Island, the easternmost island, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long, located 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Afognak, Alaska, at [ 1 ] West Amatuli Island , also known as Amatuli Island, 3 miles (4.8 km) long, located between East Amatuli and Ushagat Islands, 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Afognak, at 58°56′N 152°03′W / 58.933°N ...
All of these islands are managed as part of the Aleutian Islands Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The Delarof Islands together have a land area of 63.842 sq mi (165.349 km 2). None of the islands are populated. The Delarof Islands were named in 1836 by Captain Fyodor Petrovich Litke of the Imperial Russian Navy.
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4.9 million acres (20,000 km 2), of which 2.64 million acres (10,700 km 2) is wilderness.
The islands are inhabited by millions of marine birds and mammals [2] and is the location of a small rookery of endangered Steller sea lions. [3] [4] Every year millions of birds of various species nest on the refuge islands. Birds that nest on these islands include horned puffins, black-legged kittiwakes (which nest on the exposed rock face of ...