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Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area , one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved. [ 5 ]
Whittier, Alaska, is a small, remote town 60 miles south of Anchorage that is commonly referred to as the "town under one roof." About 217 people live there, and it's accessible only by boat or a ...
The Portage Glacier Highway, or Portage Glacier Road, is a highway located in the U.S. state of Alaska.The highway is made up of a series of roads, bridges, and tunnels that connect the Portage Glacier area of the Chugach National Forest and the city of Whittier to the Seward Highway.
Council Airport (IATA: CIL, FAA LID: K29) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.8 km) north of the central business district of Council, in the Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1]
Anchorage, Alaska city guide: What to do and where to stay in the capital of America’s last frontier. Alan Dymock. August 11, 2023 at 9:02 AM.
Whittier, Alaska. Trains load and off-load passengers in the white tented area across from the cruise ship terminal and the marina. The Whittier HAP Depot is an Alaska Railroad passenger stop in Whittier, Alaska. The passenger stop is located along a siding in Whittier, immediately west of the railroad bridge crossing Whittier Creek at Alaska ...
Jan. 27—The Anchorage Assembly is moving ahead with a process that will change the boundaries of its election districts and is also adding a 12th elected seat. For some Anchorage residents, the ...
Anchorage: 020 (Consolidated city-borough) Unified Home Rule: 1964/1975: Anchorage Borough formed in 1964, merged with city in 1975 to form unified city-borough: Derived from the presence of a safe place to anchor and unload supplies for construction of the Alaska Railroad c. 1913, thereby creating a community. 167.59 286,075: 1,707 sq mi ...