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View across Cook Inlet at low tide from downtown Anchorage, Alaska (September 2005) The Cook Inlet beluga whale is a genetically distinct and geographically isolated stock. [ 26 ] The population fell to 278 in 2005 and it is listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [ 27 ]
The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is seen near the western horizon from Staten Island near the Delta town of Walnut Grove on Oct. 13, 2024. The comet can be seen in the western sky ...
Updated October 17, 2024 at 1:21 PM BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye . But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like ...
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Knik Arm begins at the Inlet's northern edge, near Anchorage, before heading north and east. It is about 15 miles (24 km) long, and at its upper end, receives the waters of the Matanuska River . West of Knik Arm is the delta of the Susitna River , the largest stream emptying into the inlet. [ 3 ]
The Knik Site, (Dena'ina: K'enakatnu) also known as the Old Knik Townsite, is the location in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska that was once home to the largest settlement on Cook Inlet. The only surviving remnants of the community are a former log roadhouse, now a museum operated by the Wasilla-Knik Historical Society, and a log cabin.
The region is Alaska’s best-connected region, with the Port of Anchorage, Ted Stevens, Anchorage International Airport, and the Alaska Railroad servicing the area. The area includes Cook Inlet, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, the Kenai Peninsula, Prince William Sound, and the Copper River Valley. Tourism, fisheries, and petroleum production are ...
July 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM. ... Cook Inlet is Alaska's oldest producing oil and gas basin, where production peaked in the 1970s, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Alaska's most ...