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Kenai Peninsula
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Kenai Peninsula (kē`nī), S Alaska, jutting c.150 mi (240 km) into the Gulf of Alaska, between Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet. The Kenai Mts., c.7,000 ft (2,130 m) high, occupy most of the peninsula. The coastal climate is mild, with abundant rainfall and a growing season adequate for many crops. There are forest, mineral, and fishing resources in the east and, in the western section, good farmland. The Alaska RR crosses the peninsula from Seward. On the south coast of the peninsula is Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords National Park, 669,983 acres (271,248 hectares), S Alaska. The park features the great Harding Icefield and its radiating glaciers, many of which descend to tidewater, and a magnificent series of fjords along the coast of Kenai Peninsula, with rain
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, which has striking glacial formations and contains the breeding areas for a variety of birds and sea mammals.


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5 -- color) Natural Arch stands at the entrance to Halibut Cove, at the tip of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.
All came from east of the Mississippi except for two outliers: frogs from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, several years ago, and one sample that he ran across 3 weeks ago from the West Coast.
On a windswept day, we set out on a cruise through the Kenai Fjords National Park, 607,805 acres of unspoiled wilderness on the south-east coast of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.
 
 
 
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