population 809, on NE end of Kenai Peninsula, at head of Passage Canal, 28 mi. SE of Sunrise and 50 mi. SE of Anchorage, Chugach Mts.
Port and RR terminus established during World War II. The name derived from nearby Whittier Glacier was reported in 1943 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The population in 1950 was 629. A post office was established here in 1946 and was discontinued in 1961 (Ricks, 1965, p. 71).
Blackstone Bay, Emerald Bay, Hollow Bight, Passage Canal, Poe Bay, Shotgun Cove, Smitty's Cove, Squirrel Cove,
Capes:Bur Point, Gradual Point, Neptune Point, Squirrel Point, Trinity Point,
Cities:Glaciers:Beloit Glacier, Billings Glacier, Blackstone Glacier, Burns Glacier, Byron Glacier, Carroll Glacier, Concordia Glacier, Cotterell Glacier, Glacier G211107E60948N, Glacier G211110E60758N, Glacier G211176E60873N, Glacier G211226E60788N, Glacier G211235E60779N, Glacier G211254E60750N, Glacier G211360E60891N, Harriman Glacier, Lawrence Glacier, Learnard Glacier, Lowell Glacier, Marquette Glacier, Milton Glacier, Northland Glacier, Pigot Glacier, Portage Glacier, Rainy Glacier, Ripon Glacier, Seth Glacier, Shakespeare Glacier, Skookum Glacier, Taylor Glacier, Tebenkof Glacier, Twentymile Glacier, Whittier Glacier,
Islands:Emerald Island, Willard Island,
Lakes:Carmen Lake, Divide Lake, Portage Lake,
Mine:Mountains:Baird Peak, Bard Peak, Begich Peak, Boggs Peak, Byron Peak, Carpathian Peak, Mount Luther Kelly, Maynard Mountain, Shakespeare Shoulder,
Parks:Decision Point State Marine Park,
Mountain Passes:Peaks:Learnard Peak, Lowell Peak, Mismapped Mountain, Passage Peak, Pico España, Portage Peak, Roost, Vigesimal Peak,
Rivers:South Fork Upper Carmen River, Upper Carmen River,
Streams:Billings Creek, Cove Creek, Placer Creek, Whittier Creek, Whittier Creek,
Routes:Byron Glacier Trail, Portage Pass Trail,
Valleys:Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings
Bald Eagle, Black-billed Magpie, American Crow, Common Raven, Harlequin Duck, Black-legged Kittiwake, Herring Gull, Glaucous Gull, Pelagic Cormorant, Song Sparrow, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Varied Thrush, Spotted Sandpiper, California Gull, Steller's Jay, Orange-crowned Warbler, Bonaparte's Gull, Surf Scoter, Black Oystercatcher, Marbled Murrelet, American Dipper, White-winged Scoter, Common Goldeneye, Eurasian Collared Dove, Rufous Hummingbird, Tree Swallow, Pine Grosbeak, Arctic Tern, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Long-tailed Duck, Common Murre, Common Redpoll, American Tree Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Violet-green Swallow, Dark-eyed Junco, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Mallard, Ring-necked Duck, Barrow's Goldeneye, Common Merganser, Ancient Murrelet, Canada Goose, Horned Grebe, Great Blue Heron, Black-capped Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Red-necked Phalarope, Fox Sparrow, Pacific Loon, Cliff Swallow, Trumpeter Swan, Caspian tern, Barn Swallow, Pine Siskin, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Wilson's Snipe, Double-crested Cormorant, Snow Bunting, Bufflehead, White-winged Crossbill, Northern Goshawk, Downy Woodpecker, Buff-bellied Pipit, Alder Flycatcher, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Wilson's Warbler, Western Sandpiper, Thick-billed Murre, Red-throated Loon, Pacific Wren, Bank Swallow, Greater Scaup, Red-necked Grebe, Belted Kingfisher, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Iceland Gull, Northern Shrike, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Sandhill Crane, Osprey, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Common Loon, American Wigeon, Swainson's Thrush, Savannah Sparrow, Green-winged Teal, Lesser Scaup, Least Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Northern Flicker, Lapland Longspur, Lincoln's Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird, Cackling Goose, Spruce Grouse, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Peregrine Falcon, Eurasian Wigeon, Red-tailed Hawk, Boreal Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Merlin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red Crossbill, Pomarine Jaeger, Tufted Puffin, Greater White-fronted Goose, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Wandering Tattler, Snow Goose, Rock Ptarmigan, Whimbrel, Northern Harrier, Western Wood-Pewee, Rock Sandpiper, Yellow-billed Loon, Parasitic Jaeger, Short-tailed Shearwater, Horned Puffin, Willow Ptarmigan, Cattle Egret, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Semipalmated Plover, Baird's Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Rock Pigeon