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Pennock Island in Ketchikan, Alaska in August 2009. Pennock Island is located in the U.S. state of Alaska near the city of Ketchikan. The island is situated within the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and is part of the Alexander Archipelago. Most of the island is public land managed by the Tongass National Forest. [1]
According to Donald Orth's Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (p. 64), the Alexander Archipelago received its name from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1867. The island chain is named for Tsar Alexander II of Russia. [6] On an 1860 map of Russian America (Alaska), the island group is called the King George III Archipelago.
This is a list of islands of Italy. There are nearly 450 islands in Italy, including islands in the Mediterranean Sea (including the marginal seas: Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Libyan Sea, Ligurian Sea, Sea of Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea, and inland islands in lakes and rivers. The largest island is Sicily with an area of 25,711 km 2 (9,927 sq
The Slate Islands are a group of four small uninhabited islands in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, in the Inside Passage near the south end of the Alaska Panhandle, at the mouth of the Boca de Quadra, in Revillagigedo Channel (directly south of Revillagigedo Island), which connects to Dixon Entrance) and about a mile offshore of the Alaskan mainland
This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States . [A] [ 1 ]
Revillagigedo Island (Spanish: Isla Revillagigedo, IPA: [reˈβiʝa xiˈxeðo], English: / r ɛ ˌ v i j ə h i ˈ h eɪ ð oʊ / rheh-vee-yə-hee-HAY-dhoh, locally Revilla, / r ə ˈ v ɪ l ə / [1]) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Ketchikan Gateway Borough of the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Near Islands on the left: Attu Island (1), Agattu Island (2), Alaid Island (3), Nizki Island (4), and Shemya Island (5). The Near Islands or Sasignan Islands (Aleut: Sasignan tanangin, [1] Russian: Ближние острова) are a group of American islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between the Russian Commander Islands ...
The Tongass National Forest, near Ketchikan. Southeast Alaska includes the Tongass National Forest (which manages Admiralty Island National Monument and Misty Fjords National Monument), Glacier Bay National Park, and Sitka National Historical Park. Glacier Bay is the sixth largest national park in the United States.