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The San Juan Islands are a small archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, located 53 miles east of Sitka, in Pybus Bay on the southeast flank of Admiralty Island. [ 1 ] References
San Juan Islands (in white) and surrounding region Location of the San Juan Islands. The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of Washington state, and form the core of San Juan County.
The new community of Chenega is coextensive with Evans Island, which has a land area of 74.605 km 2 (28.805 sq mi) and a population of 86 persons as of the 2000 census. Evans Island and the ocean around it was polluted by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Evans Island was called Hoodoo Island before 1912. The name frightened some sailors.
Sealaska Corporation is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. Headquartered in Juneau , Alaska , Sealaska is a for-profit corporation with more than 23,000 Alaska Native shareholders [ 1 ] primarily of Tlingit , Haida ...
Lopez Island is the third largest of the San Juan Islands and an unincorporated town in San Juan County, Washington, United States. Lopez Island is 29.81 square miles (77.2 km 2 ) in land area. The 2020 census population was 3,156, [ 1 ] though the population swells in the summer, as second homes, rental houses, and campsites fill up.
Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States. [1] A ... San Juan Islands; San Juanito Island; ... Southeast Fairbanks ...
Southeast Alaska is an extensive landscape, with communities scattered across the archipelago on different islands, isolated from each other and the mainland road system. The road system that exists in the region is in place because of the resource extraction history in the region, primarily established by the Forest Service to enable timber ...
Southwest Alaska includes a huge swath of terrain 500 miles (800 km) from the western Bering Sea coast to Cook Inlet.Although much of the region is coastal, it also includes tens of thousands of square miles of interior boreal forests, swamps, and highlands, and the immense mountain barrier of the southern Alaska/Aleutian Range.