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The airport terminal. Ketchikan International Airport (IATA: KTN, ICAO: PAKT, FAA LID: KTN) is a state-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Ketchikan, a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in Alaska, that has no direct road access to the outside world or to the airport. [2]
Ketchikan is a major port along the Alaska Marine Highway System's Inside Passage route. Vessels depart northbound to Alaskan ports of call and southbound to Prince Rupert, British Columbia , a six-hour trip, — where a connection can be made to the BC Ferries system — and Bellingham, Washington , a thirty-six-hour voyage.
Ketchikan, with a population of about 14,000, is nestled along the southern portion of Alaska’s Inside Passage – a water route famed for its stunning landscapes, fjords and glaciers. The city ...
Prince of Wales arrived in Ketchikan for the first time on December 29, 2001. [13] Her maiden voyage between Hollis and Ketchikan occurred on January 13, 2002. [ 16 ] [ 6 ] Later that month she was taken out of service for several days for lack of spare filters for her variable-pitch propeller system. [ 16 ]
Schedule K is a geographic coding scheme originally developed by the United States Maritime Administration and currently maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to identify seaports handling waterborne shipments involved with foreign trade of the United States.
Land detached from a hillside in Ketchikan around 4 p.m. local time, significantly damaging roads, ruining homes and knocking out power in the small Alaskan port city known as a popular stop for ...
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View of the base from a cruise ship in May 2016. Coast Guard Base Ketchikan is a major shore installation of the United States Coast Guard located in Ketchikan, Alaska.The base is a homeport for two Sentinel-class cutters and a buoy tender, and is the only Coast Guard dry dock in the state.