Admiralty Island

A mountainous, heavily forested island of southeast Alaska in the Alexander Archipelago southwest of Juneau.

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Admiralty Island - an Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau

Alexander Archipelago - a group of islands off southeastern Alaska

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But D'Entrecasteaux, ignoring this communication-- rather uncertain, besides--directed his course towards the Admiralty Islands, mentioned in a report of Captain Hunter's as being the place where La Perouse was wrecked.

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At 1,000 pounds, and, standing up, as much as 9 feet tall, the Alaska brown bear is an unforgettable sight--and Admiralty Island has the densest brown bear population in North America.

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* create a mechanism for Sealaska to exchange its subsurface estate at Cube Cove, located within the Admiralty Island National Monument, to the Forest Service in exchange for other lands;

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My wife, Donna, took an honest 10-footer on Admiralty Island in 2013.

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That analysis identified only Admiralty Island obsidians (Summerhayes 2003).

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Angoon is the only permanent settlement on Admiralty Island. Originally home to the Kootznoowoo Tlinget tribe, the rural village can only be accessed by boat or plane.

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Over the course of his wandering life the author would kayak around and fish for salmon on Admiralty Island a place which boasts one brown bear for every two square miles.

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IN EARLY APRIL of 2004 I contacted Alaska brown bear guide Scott Newman to confirm a bear hunt that we'd set for Admiralty Island in mid-September.

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The vessel makes two 37-mile round trips a day between Auke Bay near Juneau, Alaska, and Admiralty Island, where miners work at Kenicott Copper's Greens Creek mine.