Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. The city is within the...
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Buckner Building (category 1953 establishments in Alaska)
Buckner Building is an abandoned former U.S. military building in Whittier, Alaska, on the Western edge of the Prince William Sound. During the early...
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Begich Towers (category 1952 establishments in Alaska)
Begich Towers Condominium is an American building in the small city of Whittier, Alaska. The structure is notable for being the residence for nearly the entire...
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Portage Glacier Highway (redirect from Whittier Tunnel)
Cliffside Marina and the Alaska Railroad Whittier Depot, the route crosses over Whittier Creek before immediately making a left onto Whittier Street, crossing...
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Whittier may refer to: Whittier, Alaska Whittier Airport Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier Whittier College, a private liberal arts...
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branch to Whittier conveys freight railcars interchanged with the contiguous United States via rail barges sailing between the Port of Whittier and Harbor...
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Camp Sullivan was a United States Army camp located in Whittier, Alaska from 1943 to 1960. Constructed out of a need to supply the region with military...
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The Whittier Terminal Depot is an Alaska Railroad halt in Whittier, Alaska. Although the railroad does not have an official station in Whittier, Glacier...
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Whittier (/ˈhwɪtiər/) is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities. The 14.7-square-mile (38.0 km2) city had 87,306...
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for Whittier. The city of Whittier, California, is named after the poet, as are the communities of Whittier, Alaska, Greenleaf, Idaho, and Whittier, Iowa;...
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England and America Lowell Peak, near Seward, Alaska Lowell Peak (Chugach Mountains), near Whittier, Alaska Hurricane Lowell (disambiguation), the name...
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Highway to either: Whittier Tunnel and Whittier, Alaska Alaska Route 1, the Sterling Highway to Sterling, Soldotna, and Homer. Alaska Route 9, the Seward...
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Runaway Train (film) (category Films set in Alaska)
Train". www.AlaskaRails.org. Retrieved September 21, 2017. "RailPictures.Net Photo: ARR 3010 Alaska Railroad EMD GP40-2 at Whittier, Alaska by Nick Ozorak"...
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Alaskan coast from her homeports of Vancouver, British Columbia and Whittier, Alaska during the summer seasons. On 13 May 2019, six people died when two...
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Maynard Mountain (category Mountains of Alaska)
Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, 3 mi (5 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska, at the isthmus of the Kenai...
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consist of seven day Alaskan cruises from Vancouver, British Columbia to Whittier, Alaska during the summer months. During the fall, winter, and spring, Island...
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community The Hodge Building, the historic name of the Begich Towers in Whittier, Alaska Hodge Escarpment, Edith Ronne Land, Antarctica Hodge (surname) Hodge...
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Barry Arm landslide (category Geology of Alaska)
landslide is an ongoing landslide in the Barry Arm fjord, northeast of Whittier, Alaska. The landslide is currently sliding into the waters of the fjord. Recently...
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Aquatrain (category 1963 establishments in Alaska)
between Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, and the Alaska Railroad in Whittier, Alaska, United States. It was the largest such barge in the world...
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way of South Central Alaska, passing through Anchorage, Eklutna, Wasilla, Talkeetna, Denali, and Fairbanks, with spurs to Whittier, Palmer and North Pole...
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Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, 2.5 mi (4 km) southwest of Whittier, Alaska, at the isthmus of the Kenai...
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population of Whittier, Alaska. The building contains residential housing as well as a police station, grocery, and municipal offices. Whittier once boasted...
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Middle School, Anchorage, Alaska Begich Towers, Whittier, Alaska The Begich, Boggs Visitor Center at Portage Glacier, near Whittier Begić, a surname This...
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (section Alaska)
Anchorage, Alaska, a post which the general established during World War II. The Buckner Building in Whittier, Alaska, once the largest building in Alaska by...
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invasion was greatly reduced. The construction of the deep water port in Whittier, Alaska, much closer to Anchorage, also reduced Seward's importance. The Army...
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Glacier Discovery (category Passenger trains of the Alaska Railroad)
Discovery is a passenger train operated by the Alaska Railroad between the towns of Anchorage, Whittier Alaska and south on the Seward rail line as far as...
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commuter rail system, Anchorage would use existing Alaska Railroad tracks to provide service to Whittier, Palmer, Seward, Wasilla, and Eagle River. The Ted...
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Samoan Americans (section Alaska and Hawaii)
in Alaska. Barrow, Alaska and Whittier, Alaska both are rife in Samoan residents and Samoan churches have become commonly attended in rural Alaska as...
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Bess Canty, Black spent her childhood on Army bases Camp Sullivan in Whittier, Alaska and Fort Eustis in Virginia before settling with her parents and siblings...
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