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The park covers an area of 669,984 acres (1,046.9 sq mi; 2,711.3 km 2) [1] on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, west of the town of Seward. The park contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest ice fields in the United States, and is named for the numerous fjords carved by glaciers moving down the mountains from the ice field.
Kenai River bank. The Kenai River [Kee-nye] is a meltwater river that drains the central Kenai Peninsula region. Its source is the Kenai Lake. [2] Near Cooper Landing, the lake narrows to form the river. About 12 miles (19 km) from the lake, the river passes through Kenai Canyon for about 2 miles (3.2 km) of fast-flowing whitewater rapids.
Captain Cook State Recreation Area is a park on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. [3] It is located on the shores of Cook Inlet at the northern terminus of the Kenai Spur Highway , about 25 miles (40 km) north of Kenai and 14 miles (23 km) north of Nikiski .
The Kasilof River (/ k ə ˈ s iː l ɒ f / kə-SEE-lof) or Ggasilatnu in the Dena'ina language is a river on the western Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska. The name is an anglicization of Reka Kasilova, the name given to the river by early Russian settlers in the area. [1] It begins at Tustumena Lake and flows northwest to Cook Inlet near ...
The area is located in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, 7 miles (11 km) south of the city of Seward. [1] A popular tourist destination, [ 2 ] Caines Head features spruce and hemlock forests [ 3 ] as well as a variety of terrestrial and marine wildlife (including harbor seals , Steller sea lions , sea otters , orcas , humpback , grey and fin whales ...
Time lapse video and photos of the March 27, 2009, eruption, taken from Ninilchik Archived June 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine BBC page with footage and links to other pages on the volcano Large-format photo essay of the Mount Redoubt eruption from "The Big Picture" blog on Boston.com.
This guy gave new meaning to the slogan “Gottahava Wawa.” Police in East Windsor, N.J., arrested a 24-year-old man on Dec. 23, and charged him with misusing the town’s 911 system for ...
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