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Homer from space. Homer is located at 59°38'35" North, 151°31'33" West (59.643059, −151.525900). [4] The only road into Homer is the Sterling Highway. [5] The town has a total area of 25.5 square miles (66 km 2), of which 15 square miles (39 km 2) are land and 10.5 square miles (27 km 2) are covered by water.
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.
Eagle River Nature Center: Eagle River: Anchorage: Southcentral Alaska: Located within 495,204-acre Chugach State Park, operated by the Friends of Eagle River Nature Center Juneau Raptor Center: Juneau: Juneau: Southeast Alaska: Raptor rehabilitation and education center Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center: Juneau: Juneau: Southeast Alaska
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 Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska.The museum's mission is to preserve "the stories of the Kachemak Bay region", through "collections, exhibits, and programs in culture, science, and art". [1]
The welcome centers are normally located the first few exits into a state, e.g. Exit 2 on I-84 in Connecticut entering from New York State.However, some welcome centers, visitors' centers, or service plazas are located some distance away from a state's border, serving certain cities, e.g. Johnson City, Tennessee or Oceanside, California's local Chamber of Commerce, major cities, such as New ...
The Alexander Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг Александра) is a 300-mile (480 km) long archipelago (group of islands) in North America lying off the southeastern coast of Alaska. It contains about 1,100 islands, the tops of submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean.
Yukon Island is an island in outer Kachemak Bay, an inlet of the Cook Inlet of south central Alaska. The island is located about 9 miles (14 km) south of Homer . [ 4 ] The island is archaeologically sensitive, with a number of sites documenting the prehistory of the bay.