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The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, often called the Whittier Tunnel after the town at its eastern terminus, is a dual-use ("bimodal") highway and railroad tunnel that passes under Maynard Mountain. The tunnel is at 60°46′59″N 148°45′54″W / 60.783°N 148.765°W / 60.783; -148
Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area , one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved. [ 5 ]
Begich Towers is a 14-story condominium building in Whittier, Alaska, that houses most of the city's population and public services. It was originally built as a military complex in 1953 and renamed after a missing congressman in 1972.
The Buckner Building is an abandoned former U.S. military building in Whittier, Alaska, built in 1953 and damaged by an earthquake in 1964. Learn about its history, features, and current status as a city under one roof.
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A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the narrow and shallow Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska. The web page covers the history, proposals, and technical and strategic concerns of such a project.
The following year, a report by the U.S. Geological Survey reassessed the tsunami threat posed by the landslide and said that the tsunami 500 m (1,600 ft) offshore Whittier may be slightly over 2 ft (0.61 m) in a worst-case scenario. In this separate scenario, the tsunami would exceed 200 m (660 ft) in the northern part of the fjord.
The Alaska Central went bankrupt in 1907 and was reorganized as the Alaska Northern Railroad Company in 1911, which extended the line another 21 miles (34 km) northward. On March 12, 1914, the U.S. Congress agreed to fund construction and operation of an all-weather railroad from Seward to Fairbanks and purchased the rail line from the ...