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	Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prince of Wales Island is the third largest island of the USA, after Hawai‘i and Kodiak Island.
		It is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle.
		The island is in the Prince of Wales - Outer Ketchikan Census Area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Island,_Alaska (464 words)

	Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - Alaska Online
		The island measures roughly 135 miles from north to south and 45 miles from east to west and is 2,231 square miles.
		Prince of Wales Island is dominated by a cool, moist, maritime climate.
		Prince of Wales Island offers uncrowded backcountry; kayaking and canoeing waters; good fishing for salmon, trout, halibut, and other bottom fish; excellent opportunities to view wildlife and some historical attractions.
	www.alaskaonline.org /travelplanner/southeast/prince_of_wales_island.php (376 words)

	Bygone Bears of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska Science Forum
		Alaska's only world-class caves changed category from "Unknown" to "Little Known" less than a decade ago, so both scientists and spelunkers are still finding surprises in the limestone passages beneath Prince of Wales Island.
		Though the remains in the cave indicate that grizzly bears were numerous in the early days, in geological terms, quite soon after the glaciers receded from the island about 14,000 years ago, somehow this time they didn't prevail over their smaller cousins.
		Perhaps some answers still lie in the limestone beneath Prince of Wales Island, but it's a surer bet that more questions are yet to be found there.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF11/1158.html (648 words)

	Southeast Alaska: Publications
		Quaternary artiodactyls of the Alexander Archipelago, southeast Alaska.
		The Late Wisconsin vertebrate fauna of On Your Knees Cave, northern Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska.
		Colonization of southeast Alaska by Ursus arctos prior to the peak of Wisconsin glaciation.
	www.usd.edu /esci/alaska/pubs.html (1063 words)

	Mineralogical Record: Famous mineral localities: GREEN MONSTER MOUNTAIN PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prince of Wales Island is the largest island in southeastern Alaska, and the third largest in the United States.
		Copper Mountain (the other famous epidote occurrence on Prince of Wales Island) is 5 km to the west of Green Monster Mountain and, at 1,194 meters, is the second highest peak on the island.
		From 1902 to 1923, chalcopyrite was mined in the Copper Mountain mining district on Prince of Wales Island.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3672/is_200409/ai_n9458453 (1499 words)

	Coffman Cove, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - Alaska Online
		Coffman Cove is on the northeastern coast of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
		The local school and area logging for Ketchikan Pulp Co. and a small lumber mill provided the majority of employment, and Coffman Cove was one of the major log transfer sites on Prince of Wales Island, where logs were tied together and towed to trans-shipment points for export.
		Some mining operations throughout the island were another working source, among the ores mined on the island were gold, silver, zinc, lead uranium and palladium.
	www.alaskaonline.org /travelplanner/southeast/coffmancove.php (288 words)

	Pocatello Idaho State Journal: North to Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, Alaska - Standing hip-deep in a tidal stream amidst a steady southeast Alaskan drizzle, I stared forlornly down at the inch-long crack in the finish of my four-piece, 8-weight fly rod.
		Sitka fl-tailed deer are common on Prince of Wales Island.
		The island is also home to a roaming pack of wolves, although given the dense forests on the island, fly fishers navigating the streams likely won't see any of the elusive canines.
	www.journalnet.com /articles/2004/10/29/features/outdoors01.txt (1620 words)

	Alaska Vacation Fishing Trip Lodge Salmon Lodging Resort Adventure Prince of Wales Island
		Prince of Wales Island in Alaska is dominated by a cool and moist maritime climate.
		Prince of Wales is part of the Alexander Archipelago in the southernmost portion of the Alaska panhandle and is the third largest island in the United States (Kodiak is the largest island and Hawaii is the second).
		Fish: Prince of Wales Island and Waterfall are recognized for the great number and size of trout and salmon found in the surrounding waters.
	www.virtualcities.com /ons/ak/k/akk16014.htm (807 words)

	Prince of Wales Island Alaska, Craig Alaska
		Prince of Wales Island is located in southern southeast Alaska.
		Prince of Wales is approximately 140 miles long from north to south and averages about 30 miles wide from east to west.
		Travel to the island is by the Inter Island Ferry from Ketchikan or by floatplane.
	home.surewest.net /hannon (320 words)

	ROGER BOND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thesis: The Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Kasaan Peninsula Iron-Copper-Silver-Gold Skarns, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska
		Stratabound magnetite-sulfide deposits of the Kasaan Peninsula, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska occur as replacements of andesitic volcanics, calcareous matrix conglomerate, and marble of the Silurian-Ordivician Descon Formation.
		Bond, R., 1993, The Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Kasaan Peninsula Iron-Copper-Silver-Gold Skarns, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska, M.S. Thesis, The University of Utah, 130 p.
	www.mines.utah.edu /~wmep/Petersenvit/students/bond.html (408 words)

	SEAtrails: The Southeast Alaska Trail System
		Coffman Cove, on the northeast coast of Prince of Wales Island is located within the Tongass National Forest and was first settled as a logging camp in the 1950's.
		Alaska Airlines services the community of Ketchikan and from there it is possible to connect with a small air carrier to Prince of Wales.
		Island wide there are a number of U.S. Forest Service cabins available for rental, there is one developed USFS campground near Thorne Bay, and wilderness camping is also an option in the Tongass forest.
	www.seatrails.org /com_coffmancove (966 words)

	Pocatello Idaho State Journal: North to Alaska: Prince of Wales Islands' waters are a deep sea fisherman's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, Alaska - Jerry Fickas slowed the little Lund skiff to a crawl in the green-tinged water just off the west coast of Prince of Wales Island.
		Forgetting that, for the folks on the island, it wasn't even noon yet, I hadn't expected to be ushered to one of the lodge's several skiffs and guided onto the ocean in search of big fish.
		In southeast Alaska, the tidal currents are extreme - incoming and outgoing tides really move, and keeping bait in one place near the bottom is virtually impossible.
	www.journalnet.com /articles/2004/10/22/features/outdoors01.txt (1531 words)

	Southeast Alaska: Mammal Fossils
		Without a historical record, the present lack of brown bears on Prince of Wales Island was logically attributed to competition and an inability of this species to colonize the island at the end of the Ice Age.
		But on Prince of Wales Island marmot is an index fossil for the middle Wisconsin interstadial (the period prior to the Last Glacial Maximum).
		The cave faunas represent all the living rodents that are native to Prince of Wales Island (plus meadow vole), whereas the mainland list is far from complete (red squirrels, beavers, bushy-tailed wood rats, muskrats, and meadow jumping mice also live on the mainland near Wrangell but have not yet been found in cave sediments).
	www.usd.edu /esci/alaska/mammals.html (2116 words)

	American Forests: Prince of Wales: the ultimate escape? - Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In a few minutes we left the main gravel road that runs the 140-mile length of the island, and Bruce nosed the Suburban upward, relying basically on intuition as he moved from road to road.
		As peaceful as the scenes appeared from these uplands, Prince of Wales Island (the nation's third largest, after Kodiak and Hawaii) has been the setting of conflicts and clashes for centuries, if not eons.
		Despite claims that logging has damaged the island's sportfishery, a recent edition of Alaska Fish & Game magazine features 18 lakes and streams on Prince of Wales - a number of them running through previously logged areas - as prime fishing spots for four species of salmon, plus cutthroat, steelhead, rainbow, and Dolly Varden trout.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1016/is_n1-2_v96/ai_8347391 (1078 words)

	Old Franks Fishpasses, 1995 Monitoring Report, Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The lakes in the system cover over 300 ha and there are over 19 km of anadromous streams made accessible by the fishpasses (Figure 1).
		Resident fish densities in upper Old Franks Creek have been consistently lower than other Prince of Wales streams, although Old Franks is the largest of the streams we have surveyed.
		Steelhead escapement counts in seven streams on southern Prince of Wales Island.
	www.quiknet.com /hannon/OldFranks/1995/of95report.htm (4976 words)

	Experience Prince of Wales Island
		Prince of Wales Island is the third largest island in the US, following Hawaii and Kodiak.
		It is 135 miles long, 45 miles wide and a 45 minute air ride to Ketchikan or a three hour ferry ride on the M/V Prince of Wales.
		This magnificent scenery of Alaska is home to a wide variety of wildlife and waterfowl who make their homes here such as whales, seals, porpoises, bear, deer, wolves, minks and sea otter.
	www.alaskarentals.com /experience.htm (167 words)

	USGenWeb Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
		The third largest island under the American flag, second largest in Alaska, POW was originally inhabited by Tlingit and Haida Tribes for centuries before Spanish explorers first came in the 1770's, naming many of the surrounding islands, inlets,and waterways.
		Captain George Vancouver, a British chart-maker, explored the area in the late 18th century, and named the Island in 1793 for George, Prince of Wales, who would be crowned King George IV in 1821.
		Transient logging and mining camps have been on the Island since the 1800's, but it was fish that brought permanent settlement to Prince of Wales.
	www.usroots.org /~princeak (815 words)

	Prince of Wales Island on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND [Prince of Wales Island] c.12,800 sq mi (33,150 sq km), Nunavut Territory, Canada, between Victoria and Somerset islands.
		A ferry tale: This ferry between Prince of Wales Island and Ketchikan connects a number of isolated communities and enhances quality of life.
		Taming the wilderness; form the foot of Mt. Kenya to the Prince of Wales Island, clients can find luxurious living in the most unlikely places.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PrncW1aI1sC1an.asp (544 words)

	Prince of Wales International Marathon
		Prince of Wales Island, located in Southeast Alaska, is the third-largest island in the United States.
		Affectionately known by locals as POW, Prince of Wales is roughly 2,600 square miles and is home to nearly 6,000 residents and ten communities.
		The Prince of Wales International Marathon is the premiere event of the Prince of Wales Runners Club—member of the
	www.powmarathon.org (228 words)

	Craig Alaska and Prince of Wales Island Alaska Visitor Information
		Our southeast Alaska community is located on the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island, seven miles south of Klawock, about 60 miles northwest of Ketchikan, 750 miles north of Seattle and 220 miles south of Juneau.
		With an estimated population of 1,400 year-round residents, Craig serves as a transportation center for the island of Prince of Wales and the surrounding communities of Klawock, Thorne Bay, Hydaburg, Coffman Cove, Hollis, Naukati, Port Protection, Whale Pass, Kasaan, and Port Baker.
		Whatever reason calls you to Prince of Wales Island, you can be assured that once you see and feel the natural beauty of Southeast Alaska, it will be calling you back again and again.
	www.craigalaska.com (231 words)

	Hunter demand for deer on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: an analysis of influencing factors
		The cashbased market economy on Prince of Wales Island is in transition as the dependence on logging and commercial fishing declines.
		An area of projected growth, however, is in tourism and recreationbased employment, from which residents on the island may be able to benefit.
		Hunter demand for deer on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: an analysis of influencing factors Gen. Tech.
	www.treesearch.fs.fed.us /pubs/viewpub.jsp?index=5430 (327 words)

	Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - Tongass National Forest
		Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - Tongass National Forest
		Location includes a very scenic valley and leads to views of the Nipples, one of the higher peaks on the outside islands.
		Trail leads past the cabin along the north shore of Shipley Creek, crosses over a bridge to the south shore, then follows a moderate to fairly steep (for short distances) incline along this shore to the banks of Shipley Bay.
	www.alaskarentals.com /tongass.htm (784 words)

	Maybeso watershed - Markus Weiler
		It is located at the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, at the south-ern end of the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska, in the so called Alaskan Panhandle.
		Maybeso Valley's bedrock is composed of a variety of lithologies: The main bedrock types are metasedi-ments, altered locally to varying degrees by regional folding and subsequent intrusions.
		The area was last glaciated during the Wisconsin glacial advance in the late Pleistocene, when almost all of Southeast Alaska was covered by ice.
	www.2hydros.de /markus/maybeso.html (744 words)

	Alaska steelhead fishing on Prince of Wales Island Alaska
		Alaska steelhead fishing on Prince of Wales Island Alaska
		he Prince Of Wales is a true rainforest.
		A variety of lines is important when fishing Prince of Wales Island.
	www.gourmetflyfishing.com /alaska/equipment.html (317 words)

	Nature Viewing on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
		--> Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, is essentially a temperate rain forest with lush, green foliage and an abundance of flourishing wildlife.
		This area of Southeast Alaska is a far cry from the barren tundra so often associated with Alaska's image.
		Alaska's Boardwalk Lodge oceanfront property is home to bald eagles nesting, sitka fltail deer foraging, sea otters playing and humpback whales surfacing.
	www.boardwalklodge.com /alaska/adventures/nature-viewing.aspx (105 words)

	Alaska
		Prior to statehood in 1959, the territory was nicknamed "Seward's folly" or "Seward's icebox", a supposed gaffe by then-U.S. Secretary of State William Seward.
		Among the 1800 named islands, the largest and most well-known is Kodiak Island.
		Those sportsmen who prefer can try their luck in the Gulf of Alaska or the Pacific Ocean for the vaunted king salmon, king crab or giant halibut.
	www.ohwy.com /usa/alaska (303 words)

	Alaska fishing: Prince of Wales Island
		One of the delights of Prince of Wales Island is secluded fishing and comfortable lodges in Alaska wilderness settings with access to impressive outdoor recreation opportunities.
		From rolling hills and to vertical cliffs, this is one the most stunning in Alaska and home to a variety of wildlife.
		Teeming with life and breathtaking in scenery, it is fringed by almost 1,000 miles of coastline that lies near the beginning of Alaska’s part of the famed Inside Passage.
	www.outdoorsdirectory.com /areas/fishing/southeast/prince_of_wales.htm (928 words)

	Alaska Sea Grant Project A/152-16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The primary objective of this project is to develop an aquaculture development plan for Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, that will enable rapid issuance of aquatic farming permits.
		Survey island communities to determine interest and likely areas where aquaculture is feasible and acceptable by the residents.
		On Prince of Wales Island, planning has concentrated on the Naukati Bay in Sea Otter Sound, located in the northwest region of the island.
	www.uaf.edu /seagrant/research/postaward/A152-16.html (693 words)

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