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Gastineau Channel Historical Society [1] [2] [3] Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place Light; First lit: 1935 (current) Focal height: 86 feet (26 m) Lens: Fourth order Fresnel lens: Range: 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) Characteristic: Fl W 10s. pbscured from 152° to 296°
After getting 30 minutes of daylight, the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska – formerly known as Barrow – saw its final sunset of the year on Monday as it enters a "polar night." The sun won't return ...
Located on the shore of Wrangell, Alaska barely a mile out of town, it became a State Historic Park in 2000. At least 40 petroglyphs have been found to date. [1] The site itself is about 8000 years old. [2] The petroglyphs that remain here are found on the boulders and bedrock outcrops on the shore, just below and above mean high tide.
The Diomede Islands are named after Saint Diomedes.The Inupiaq name Iŋaliq means "the other one" or "the one over there". [4] The two islands are respectively nicknamed "Yesterday Island" (Little Diomede Island) and "Tomorrow Island" (Big Diomede Island) because the International Date Line runs between them, making the date on Little Diomede Island always one day later than the date on Big ...
Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, also known as the Eklutna Chapel, is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Eklutna, Alaska. It is about one mile inland from the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet. The church, built of hewn spruce logs, is about 5 by 8 metres (16 ft × 26 ft) in plan, and was built in about 1894. It was moved to its current ...
Mount Wake is a 9,100+ ft (2,770+ m) mountain summit located in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve, in Alaska, United States. It is situated on the west side of the Ruth Gorge , 14.44 mi (23 km) southeast of Denali and 5.85 mi (9 km) southwest of The Moose's Tooth .
Last year the roughly 32,000 residents of Juneau weathered hordes of hikers, schools of whale watchers, and swarms of overflying helicopters as roughly 1.6m visitors in total – or up to 21,000 ...
Ruth Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Its upper reaches are approximately 3 vertical miles below the summit of Denali . The glacier's "Great Gorge" is one mile wide, and drops almost 2,000 feet (610 m) over 10 miles (16 km), with crevasses along the surface.