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Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes ...
The Dalton Cache–Pleasant Camp Border Crossing connects the towns of Haines, Alaska and Haines Junction, Yukon on the Canada–United States border. Alaska Route 7 on the American side joins Yukon Highway 3 on the Canadian side as part of the Haines Highway.
Trapper Lake is a lake in Alaska that lies to the north of Wasilla. It has no road access. The only way to get there is via float plane in the summer or snow machine in the winter. There is no access in the shoulder seasons when the winter trails are gone and there is ice on the lake.
The village is along Birch Creek, about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Fort Yukon.Birch Creek is at (66.256708, -145.815319 [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.4 square miles (17 km 2), of which, 6.1 square miles (16 km 2) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2) of it (4.23%) is water.
The Chukchi population is found off in the western part of Alaska near the Wrangell Islands, and the Beaufort Sea population is located near Alaska's North Slope. [ 10 ] Until the late 1940s, polar bears were hunted almost exclusively for subsistence by Inupiats and dogs teams, though from the late 1940s until 1972, sport hunting by others took ...
Port Alsworth is located in northern Lake and Peninsula Borough at (60.208281, -154.306586 It sits on the south shore of Lake Clark at the mouth of the Tanalian River. . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 22.7 square miles (58.8 km 2), of which 22.64 square miles (58.65 km 2) are land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km 2), or 0.27%, are
Toksook Bay (TOOK-sook or TUCK-sook) [3] is a city [4] [5] and village on Nelson Island in Bethel Census Area, Alaska. The population was 590 at the 2010 census , up from 532 in 2000. As of 2018, the estimated population was 667, [ 4 ] [ 6 ] making it the largest village on the island.
Ekwok means "end of the bluff" (river's edge) in Yupik, [4] [5] from iquk ("end"). [6] It is the oldest continuously occupied Yupik village on the Nushagak River.During the 1800s, the settlement was used in the spring and summer as a fish camp, and in the fall as a base camp for picking berries.