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Kenai Peninsula

Kenai Peninsula

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Kenai Peninsula
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 2264 ft (690.07 m)
Fatalities:
  • 1
About

Incomplete record - should be at least 69 maps, LATLONGs truncated in PH I by GIPSY - 9512. Extends SW from Turnagain Arm and Passage Canal, bounded on E by Gulf of Alaska and on W by Cook Inlet, Chugach Mts. and Cook Inlet Low.

History of Kenai Peninsula

Name published in 1868 by US@C&GS; probably derived from Kenayskaya the name given by the Russians in the 1790's to Cook Inlet. commodore Joseph Billings, called it Kanaiski land in 1802; Constantin Grewingk called it Tschugatsk Halbinsel or Chugach Peninsula in 1850.

Fatalities
September 4, 20111 person died hunting Read More