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Point Franklin is a piece of land located on the Chukchi Sea side of North Slope, Alaska. Point Franklin is a few miles north of Wainwright , limiting with the Peard Bay to the east. Point Franklin was named by British mariner Frederick William Beechey on August 15, 1826, after Lieutenant (afterwards Sir) John Franklin .
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009.
Wasilla (Dena'ina: Benteh [4]) is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, and the fourth-largest city in Alaska. It is located on the northern point of Cook Inlet in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of the southcentral part of the state. The city's population was 9,054 at the 2020 census, up from 7,831 in 2010. [5]
Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport has one asphalt paved runway (8/26) measuring 7,100 ft × 150 ft (2,164 m × 46 m). [1]For the 12-month period ending 11 January 2011, the airport had 12,010 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 50% air taxi, 37% general aviation, 12% scheduled commercial and fewer than 1% military.
Wainwright in the 1940s. Wainwright is located on the Chukchi Sea about 72 miles (116 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.5 square miles (110 km 2), of which, 17.6 square miles (46 km 2) of it is land and 24.9 square miles (64 km 2) of it (58.63%) is water.
North Lakes is located northeast of Wasilla and west of Palmer; the CDP name refers to a chain of lakes in the community. It is bordered to the south by the South Lakes CDP. According to the United States Census Bureau , the North Lakes CDP has a total area of 17.2 square miles (44.6 km 2 ), of which 15.5 square miles (40.1 km 2 ) are land and ...
Merrill Field (IATA: MRI, ICAO: PAMR, FAA LID: MRI) [2] is a public-use general aviation airport located one mile (1.6 km) east of downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by Municipality of Anchorage. [1] It opened in 1930 as Anchorage Aviation Field and was renamed in honor of Alaska aviation pioneer Russel Merrill.
Wasilla Airport (IATA: WWA [2], ICAO: PAWS [3], FAA LID: IYS) is a city-owned public-use airport located about 3.5 miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Wasilla, a city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Wasilla is 17 miles by air and 47 miles by road from Anchorage, [4] the largest city in Alaska.