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Anchor Point (Dena'ina: K’kaq’) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,930, [ 2 ] up from 1,845 in 2000.
The Anchor River is a stream on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Beginning near Bald Mountain on the eastern side of the lower peninsula, if flows generally west for 30 miles (48 km) [1] into Cook Inlet near Anchor Point on the western side of the peninsula. [3] The river mouth is 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Homer. [1]
Anchor Point (2021 Population 305 [2]) is a town located in St. Barbe Bay, south of Flower's Cove on the west side of the Great Northern Peninsula, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was the first English settlement on what is called the 'French Shore' of Newfoundland .
Anchor Point or anchor point may refer to: Anchor Point, Alaska, US; Anchor Point, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Anchor point (audio) This page was last edited ...
KNLS is an international shortwave radio station near Anchor Point, Alaska, United States. [1] The station is operated by World Christian Broadcasting, a non-profit company based in the United States. KNLS broadcasts 20 hours a day of Christian-themed programming in Chinese, English and Russian.
The town was settled by a group of Old Believers from Oregon around 1968, and remains a largely ethnic Russian town to this day. [3] The travels of the group from Russia, as well as the story of the founding of Nikolaevsk, is told in a 1972 article in National Geographic, [4] a 2013 episode on the NatGeo channel called Russian Alaska, and a 2013 article in The Atlantic magazine.
It leads mainly west from Tern Lake to Soldotna, paralleling the Kenai River, at which point it turns south to follow the eastern shore of Cook Inlet. It is the only highway in the western and central Kenai Peninsula , and most of the population of the Kenai Peninsula Borough lives near it.
The island is perhaps best known as the eastern anchor-point for the Great Chain, a massive iron structure that stretched across the narrow bend in the Hudson between the island and the mainland at West Point. The chain was intended to prevent British naval vessels from navigating freely along the Hudson.