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  BBC Tees - Voices from the Clarences - Port Clarence, Alaska
John Coyle, caretaker at The Clarences Community Centre, Port Clarence, recently chatted live on the radio to the residents of Port Clarence, USA.
Frank explained that Port Clarence is a LORAN (LOng Range Aids to Navigation) station, dedicated to producing a radio signal from a 1,350 foot mast.
Port Clarence is extremely isolated, and spends a lot of time under cover of snow, so John wondered if it ever got lonely?
www.bbc.co.uk /tees/voices/radio/alaska.shtml   (498 words)

  
 Alaska
Alaska is thus an exclave of the United States that is part of the continental U.S. but is not part of the contiguous U.S. It is also the only mainland state whose capital city is accessible only via ship or air.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area (it is larger in area than all but 18 of the world's nations) at 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²), over twice as large as Texas, the next largest state.
Alaska Natives, while organized in and around their communities, are often active within the Native corporations which have been given ownership over large tracts of land, and thus need to deliberate resource conservation and development issues.
articles.gourt.com /en/Alaska   (4408 words)

  
 seattle bellevue redmond weather directory washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area (it is larger in area than all but 18 of the world's nations) at 570,380 square miles (1,477,261 km²), over twice as large as Texas, the next largest state.
Alaska is administratively divided into "boroughs," as opposed to "counties." The function is the same, but whereas some states use a three-tiered system of decentralisation — state/county/township — most of Alaska only uses two tiers — state/borough.
Alaska's most populous city is Anchorage, home of 260,283 people (as of 2000), 225,744 of whom live in the urbanized area.
www.coolpup.net /mod3.php?title=Alaska   (6340 words)

  
 Travel information
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area, 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²).
South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region and is the population center for the state.
Alaska has no counties in the sense used in the rest of the country.
www.mytravelinfo.net /us-alaska.htm   (3529 words)

  
 Port Clarence, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Port Clarence is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States.
Port Clarence is located at 65°15′58″N, 166°51′10″W (65.265974, -166.852765)
At Port Clarence, there is the LORAN-C transmitter Port Clarence with a 411.48 metre high guyed mast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Clarence,_Alaska   (377 words)

  
 Information And Resources About Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area (it is larger in area than all but 18 of the world's nations) at 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²;), over twice as large as Texas, the next largest state.
But ranked by population density, Alaska is the least densely populated at 1.1 people per square mile (List of U.S. states by population density), with the next nearest ranking state, Wyoming, at 5.1 per square mile, and the most densely populated, New Jersey, at a whopping 1,134.4 per square mile.
Alaska is one of two states (the other is Delaware) that does not have a library that was donated by Andrew Carnegie.
www.seegeorgiarealestate.com /Alaska.htm   (4448 words)

  
 Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The capital of Alaska is Juneau and the current governor of Alaska is Frank H. Murkowski (Republican).
Alaska is the only state that is both in North America and not part of the 48 contiguous states.
Alaska is the Easternmost state in the Union.
www.info-pedia.net /about/alaska   (2479 words)

  
 Alaska Web Page
Welcome to the Alaska real estate and relocation center where you can find homes, condos, new home builders and commercial investment property.
And, you can BLOG any city in Alaska, blog with the residents about real estate values, jobs, health care and even politics.
The weather for Juneau, Alaska is reported by a local weather station using a combination of TAF and METAR reports from airports and weather stations in the area (ICAO).
alaskawebpage.com   (229 words)

  
 University Of Alaska, Stories
The neighboring people of Wales and Port Clarence found it necessary to travel great distances to find the resources they needed to survive; the Diomede Islanders usually found much of what they needed in their home area.
The people of Wales and Port Clarence were culturally very similar to the Little Diomede people, but because the Diomede Islanders had an abundance of stone to work with and used it extensively, their homes had a unique design and appearance.
Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore); at Port Clarence the soil was not suitable for this type of construction, so the houses were built partially above ground.
www.alaska.edu /opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=108   (979 words)

  
 Alaska Plant Materials Center Publications
Alaska Plant Materials Center.  1974.  Annual Report, 1973.  State of Alaska, Division of Agriculture, Plant Materials Center, Palmer, Alaska.  42 pp.
Alaska Plant Materials Center.  1987.  1986 Progress Report for the Conservation Plant Project.  State of Alaska, Division of Agriculture, Plant Materials Center, Palmer, Alaska.  91 pp.
Alaska Plant Materials Center.  1991.  Annual Report, 1990.  State of Alaska, Division of Agriculture, Plant Materials Center, Palmer, Alaska.  77 pp.
www.dnr.state.ak.us /ag/ag_PMCPublications.htm   (2792 words)

  
 Coast Guard Loran Station Port Clarence to compare notes with Port Clarence, England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and crew from the air station in Sitka, three Civil Air Patrol planes and crews and ground search teams from the Wrangell Search and Rescue are saturating the area near the boy’s home, the shoreline and adjacent bays and islands searching for the missing boy.
One such community is Port Clarence on the northern bank of the River Tees in Eastern Britain.
The Loran Station is one of five remote Coast Guard units in Alaska that provide and maintain the Loran-C navigation signal to aid mariners in the Pacific Ocean.
www.uscg.mil /d17/allnews/news03/07903.htm   (574 words)

  
 PBS - Harriman: For Educators and Students
Welcome to the Alaska Harriman Retraced on-line expedition -- we are pleased that you will join us on this voyage to The Great Land.
Eskimo children pose on the beach in Port Clarence, photographed in 1899 by Edward Curtis.
A group of Eskimo women and children visit a whaler in Port Clarence, Alaska.
www.pbs.org /harriman/education/education.html   (393 words)

  
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PORT CLARENCE and Grantley Harbour (an inner basin), were first explored and named by Captain Beechey in 1827.
Point Spencer, the extremity of a long spit, which shuts it in, was determined by him to be in Lat.
In 1866-7, the natives in the neighbourhood were almost starving, and were at one time reduced to boiling down their old boots and fragments of hide, in order to sustain life.
memory.loc.gov /service/gc/mtfgc/15679/3660316.txt   (282 words)

  
 PBS - Harriman: Western Alaska Fly through Maps
A fly through of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians Region takes you 15 miles south-southwest through rough seas into Unalaska Bay past the ports of Dutch Harbor and Unalaska.
The image below is a preview of the fly through and shows the South Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians Region as it might appear from the ground-level perspective of a member of the Harriman Expedition.
The fly through of the Bering Sea Coast Region begins late in the day about 15 miles northwest of Port Clarence, slowly paralleling the coast to give you a glimpse of the vast, harsh interior of Alaska.
www.pbs.org /harriman/maps/w_fly_maps.html   (472 words)

  
 Media: Image Gallery: High Resolution
The Expeditionary Unit Water Purification (EUWP) demonstrator ultrafiltration unit and two water transfer tanks at the the Port Clarence, Alaska, Coast Guard station.
The Expeditionary Unit Water Purification (EUWP) demonstrator ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis unit is loaded on to a flat bed truck in San Diego, Calif., in preparation for transport to its ulitmate destination of Port Clarence, Alaska, Coast Guard station.
The Expeditionary Unit Water Purification (EUWP) demonstrator ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis unit is loaded aboard an U.S. Coast Guard C-130 in Kodiak, Alaska, for transport to the Port Clarence, Alaska, Coast Guard station.
www.onr.navy.mil /media/gallery_display_high.asp?curpage=7   (208 words)

  
 Alaska Community Histories (Index) - ExploreNorth
The majority of the links below are to short histories and location maps provided by the Alaska Department of Community & Regional Affairs, extracted from their Community Database.
Department of Community and Economic Development Alaska Community Database Online
History and map graphic used with permission from the Alaska Department of Community and Economic Development
www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-commindex.htm   (54 words)

  
 Alaska Marine Weather Forecast, Fish Sniffer Online
Coastal waters from South of Alaska Peninsula, Sitkinak to Castle Cape
Coastal waters from South of Alaska Peninsula, Castle Cape to Cape Sarichef
Bristol Bay, south portion from Port Heiden to Cape Sarichef
www.fishsniffer.com /weather/marinealaska.html   (109 words)

  
 Alaska Marine Text Forecasts by Zone
The entire text of these forecasts may be found at NWS Production Schedule for Marine Text Products or the low-bandwidth-friendly National Weather Service Marine Forecasts page which also serve as alternate sources of data.
Bristol Bay Waters Cape Newenham to Port Heiden
Although SAME codes exist for offshore forecast zones and forecast synopses, they are not used operationally.
www.nws.noaa.gov /om/marine/alaska.htm   (460 words)

  
 The Harriman Alaska Expedition: Chronicles and Souvenirs May to August 1899
This is the private souvenir album created collectively by the members of the scientific expedition along the Alaskan coast funded and accompanied by railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman in the summer of 1899.
Page 20 (photo quality) -- Chart of lands and coasts of Alaska in North America.
Page 178 (photo quality) -- The HAE Steamer Elder - Port Clarence Alaska, Eskimo in their Umiaks - Port Clarence
lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/amrvm/vmh/vmh.html   (933 words)

  
 Media: Image Gallery:Any Resolution
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U.S. Coast Guard Station at Port Clarence, Alaska.
The Expeditionary Unit Water Purification (EUWP) demonstrator ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis units at the Port Clarence, Alaska, Coast Guard station.
www.onr.navy.mil /media/gallery_display_all.asp?curpage=7   (249 words)

  
 Lamson Library » Blog Archive » The Bruce Collection Of Eskimo Material Culture From Port Clarence, Alaska
The Bruce Collection Of Eskimo Material Culture From Port Clarence, Alaska
tags: alaska, bruce, miner wait, bruce, miner wait — ethnological museums and collections, eskimos, eskimos — alaskaport clarence, ethnological museums and collections, port clarence, vanstone, james w
Nushagak: An Historic Trading Center In Southwestern Alaska [by] James W. VanStone
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1054587   (331 words)

  
 Cotton States and International Exposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook proposes to establish an Eskimo Village on the midway at the Cotton State and International Exposition, Atlanta Constitution (Feb. 15, 1895).
Miner W. Bruce of the Reindeer Station at Port Clarence, Alaska, brings a group of Eskimos to the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta in 1895 and exhibits them in the Ice Grotto on the Midway, Atlanta Constitution (Nov. 1, 1895).
Miner Bruce brings the Alaska Eskimos on a tour of public schools in Atlanta during the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta Constitution (Nov. 6, 1895).
www.boondocksnet.com /expos/cottonstates.html   (606 words)

  
 AirNav: PAPC - Port Clarence Coast Guard Station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
AirNav: PAPC - Port Clarence Coast Guard Station
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If your business provides an interesting product or service to pilots, flight crews, aircraft, or users of the Port Clarence Coast Guard Station, you should consider listing it here.
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 KPC - Port Clarence [Port Clarence Coast Guard Station], AK, US - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
KPC - Port Clarence [Port Clarence Coast Guard Station], AK, US - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
This information may not be accurate or current and is not valid for navigation or flight planning.
Please see credits for attribution and copyright information.
gc.kls2.com /airport/KPC   (104 words)

  
 Gallery of the Open Frontier Site Map / Subject Headings Beginning with "E"
Description: This page contains information about Booklet: A Trip Through Alaska, illustrated by E.A. Hegg.
Eskimos / Hunting / Canoes / Arms and armament / Bodies of water
Eskimos / Rivers / Piers and wharves / Canoes / Women / Children / Pamphlets / Fur coats
gallery.unl.edu /Sitemap_Images_E7.html   (2376 words)

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