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How small is Whittier? About 217 people live there, and it's accessible only by boat or a one-way, one-lane tunnel.
The ferry system, taking advantage of her ocean-going status, sends the vessel on a monthly trans-Gulf of Alaska ("cross-gulf") voyage beginning in Juneau and concluding in Kodiak. On this voyage, the Kennicott is able to provide service to the isolated Gulf of Alaska community of Yakutat and is the only vessel to do so. The cross-gulf voyages ...
Passage Canal is a natural bay (not an artificial canal) of Prince William Sound on the east coast of the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States.Its only settlement is the small town of Whittier, located near the head of the bay.
Whittier is a port for the Alaska Marine Highway. [7] Whittier is notable for its extremely wet climate [8] – the town receives 197 inches (5,000 mm) of precipitation per year on average [9] – as well as for the fact that almost all of its residents live in the Begich Towers Condominium, earning it the nickname of a "town under one roof". [8]
Dubbed "the city under one roof," it was once the largest building in Alaska. It was built in 1953 for the U.S. military, and it housed 1,000 apartments, a movie theater, bowling alley, pool, gym ...
However, unlike the LeConte, the Aurora was moved out of Southeast Alaska into Prince William Sound area in 2005 to take the place of the retired MV Bartlett. This move, however, was highly controversial as the MV Chenega , a fast ferry, was supposed to take this role and been promised for years in advance to the Prince William Sound area and ...
The MV Wickersham was a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway. Wickersham was the second vessel, after the MV Chilkat, in the Alaska Marine Highway fleet to not have been constructed specifically for AMHS, but was rather acquired for from the Stena Line, where it was known as the Stena Britannica and served the Kiel, Germany–Gothenburg, Sweden route.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]