Long Description:My photos in the gallery were taken over three days in June 2009 at
various locations around the Alaska Panhandle. The default photo
was taken at the listed coordinates.
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The Alaska Panhandle, sometimes referred to as South east Alaska,
is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, which lies
west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British
Columbia. The majority of the panhandle's area is part of the
Tongass National Forest, the United States' largest national
forest. In many places, the international border runs along the
crest of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains.
The Alaska Panhandle is the northern terminus of the Inside
Passage, a protected waterway of convoluted passages between
islands and fjords, beginning in Puget Sound in Washington state.
This was an important travel corridor for native canoeists, as well
as gold-rush steam ships, and in modern times is an important route
for ferries and cruise ships. The Panhandle has a land area of
91,008.18 square kilometres (35,138.45 sq mi), comprising six
entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the part of
Yakutat Borough lying east of 141° West longitude. Although it has
only 6.14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the
state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana. The
2000 census population of the Panhandle was 72,954 inhabitants,
about 42 percent of whom were concentrated in the city of Juneau.
* Haines Borough
* Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
* Juneau Borough
* Ketchikan Gateway Borough
* Petersburg Census Area
* Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area
* Sitka Borough
* Skagway Borough
* Wrangell Borough
* Yakutat Borough (the part east of 141° W longitude; 12,506.53
km² / 4,828.80 sq mi, or about 63.12 percent of the borough)
It includes the Tongass National Forest, Glacier Bay National
Park, Admiralty Island National Monument, Misty Fjords National
Monument, Alaska's Inside Passage, and myriad large and small
islands. The largest islands are, from North to South, Chichagof
Island, Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, Kupreanof Island,
Revillagigedo Island and Prince of Wales Island. Major bodies of
water of the Alaska Panhandle include Glacier Bay, Lynn Canal, Icy
Strait, Chatham Strait, Stephens Passage, Frederick Sound, Sumner
Strait, and Clarence Strait.
For more information please see the WIKI page