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Ptarmigan Peak is located on Baranof Island and 9.4 miles (15.1 km) north-northwest of Port Alexander, Alaska. [4] It is set on land managed by Tongass National Forest . [ 3 ] Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slopes drains to Port Walter , whereas the west slopes drain to Big Branch Bay.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
Baranof Island [a] is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska. The name "Baranof" was given to the island in 1805 by Imperial Russian Navy captain U. F. Lisianski in honor of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov. [1] It was called Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (often expressed simply as "Shee" [2]) by the native ...
Southeast Alaska has a land area of 35,138 square miles (91,010 km 2), [2] comprising much of the Alexander Archipelago.The largest islands are, from North to South, Chichagof Island, Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, Kupreanof Island, Revillagigedo Island and Prince of Wales Island.
Camp Lake (Alaska) Cannon Island (Alaska) Catherine Island (Alaska) Chatham, Alaska; Chatham Strait; Cozian Reef; Daily Sitka Sentinel; Eastern Channel; Emmons House; Fairway Island Light; Flat Top Mountain (Sitka City and Borough, Alaska) Freshwater Bay (Alaska) Goon Dip Mountain; Green Lake (Alaska) Hanlon-Osbakken House; Indian River (Alaska ...
A pair of Sitka deer at the Indian River on Baranof Island. Western hemlock, Sitka spruce and western redcedar dominate the prolific rainforest vegetation of Admiralty Island; wildlife in abundance include brown bears, bald eagles, many species of salmon, whales, and deer. Admiralty Island is home to the highest density of brown bears in North ...
A prognostic chart is a map displaying the likely weather forecast for a future time. Such charts generated by atmospheric models as output from numerical weather prediction and contain a variety of information such as temperature, wind, precipitation and weather fronts.
Mount Ada is located on Baranof Island and 30 miles (48 km) north of Port Alexander, Alaska. [4] It is set within the South Baranof Wilderness on land managed by Tongass National Forest . [ 2 ] The peak ranks as the highest summit in the wilderness and sixth-highest in Sitka Borough.