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A locomotive of the Yakutat and Southern Railway Co. in Yakutat, September 1, 1907. Yakutat and Southern Railway was a rail operation in the area. It served several canneries south of Yakutat and primarily hauled fish to the harbor. Service ended in the mid-1960s. [16]
Location of Yakutat in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yakutat, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yakutat, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the ...
Yakutat Bay was the epicenter of two major earthquakes on September 10, 1899, a magnitude 7.4 foreshock and a magnitude 8.0 main shock, 37 minutes apart. [1] The Shelikhov-Golikov company (precursor of the Russian-American Company), under the management of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, founded a settlement in Yakutat Bay in 1795.
Yakutat Bay, a bay on the coast of Alaska; Yakutat Airport, a state-owned public-use airport in Alaska in the United States; Yakutat Army Airfield, a former United States Army airfield which was redeveloped into the current airport; Yakutat Colony, a former Russian penal colony on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
When it reached the nearest tide gauge, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) [1] to the southeast of the landslide near Yakutat, Alaska, the wave had diminished to a height of 15 centimeters (5.9 inches). [1] The Taan Fiord event bore a strong similarity to the July 1958 landslide and megatsunami in Alaska's Lituya Bay. [7]
Dry Bay, Alaska is a landform and a summer fishing community located on the northeast shore of the Gulf of Alaska, 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Yakutat. [1] Dry Bay lies along the Alsek River, one of the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park.
The Situk River in the Gulf of Alaska Watershed drains a portion of Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska. The Alaskan natives name was reported as R(eka) Sita or Sitak River by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). It was spelled Situk by E. J. Glave in 1890, and See-tuck by Lieutenant Commander J. F. Moser, U.S. Navy (USN ...
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. [6] The park and preserve cover a total of 3,223,384 acres (5,037 sq mi; 13,045 km 2), with 2,770,000 acres (4,328 sq mi; 11,210 km 2) being designated as a wilderness area. [7]