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  2. Taquan Air - Wikipedia

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    July 24, 2007: A Taquan de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, registration number N995WA, was conducting an aerial tour of the Misty Fjords when it struck a mountain at an altitude of about 2,500 feet (760 m) above mean sea level (MSL), killing the pilot and four passengers aboard. The pilot of another aircraft that had flown the same route shortly ...

  3. Misty Fjords National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Misty Fjords National Monument (or Misty Fiords National Monument) is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National Forest. Misty Fiords is about 40 miles (64 km) east of Ketchikan, Alaska , along the Inside Passage coast in extreme southeastern Alaska , comprising 2,294,343 ...

  4. New Eddystone Rock - Wikipedia

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    On December 1, 1978 President Jimmy Carter proclaimed a portion of the Tongass National Forest to be Misty Fjords National Monument, which included New Eddystone Rock. [7] In 1980 Congress enacted the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act , which provided wilderness protection to most of the national monument. [ 8 ]

  5. Tongass National Forest - Wikipedia

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    Misty Fjords Waterfall and kayak The Tongass includes parts of the Northern Pacific coastal forests and Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra ecoregions. Along with the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia designated as the Great Bear Rainforest , the Tongass is part of the "perhumid rainforest zone", and the forest is ...

  6. Southeast Alaska - Wikipedia

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    The Tongass National Forest, near Ketchikan. Southeast Alaska includes the Tongass National Forest (which manages Admiralty Island National Monument and Misty Fjords National Monument), Glacier Bay National Park, and Sitka National Historical Park. Glacier Bay is the sixth largest national park in the United States.

  7. Unuk River - Wikipedia

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    It flows from the Coast Mountains southwest to Behm Canal, northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. From its headwaters in a heavily glaciated area in British Columbia, south of the lower Iskut River , the Unuk flows west and south for 129 kilometres (80 mi), crossing into Alaska and emptying into Burroughs Bay, an inlet of Behm Canal.

  8. List of fjords of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Most of the fjords in Washington originate off Puget Sound and the Salish Sea, while fjords in Alaska originate from numerous, more varied locations. The Hudson River fjord in New York is recognized as the only true Fjord in the eastern coast of the United States [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  9. Keta River - Wikipedia

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    The Keta River is a river in Southeastern Alaska in the United States, flowing generally south-southwest to enter the Boca de Quadra, which connects to the sea via Revillagigedo Channel about 45 miles (72 km) east of Ketchikan. [1] It is located almost entirely within Misty Fjords National Monument.

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