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    Kachemak Bay (Dena'ina: Tika Kaq’) is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula...
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    Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is a 400,000-acre (1,600 km2) park in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States. Kachemak...
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    square miles (27 km2) are covered by water. Homer is on the shore of Kachemak Bay on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its distinguishing feature...
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    Kachemak Bay Campus (KBC) is a campus of Kenai Peninsula College, which is a unit of the University of Alaska Anchorage. Located in Homer, KBC has a student...
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    Kilcher homestead established 80 years ago outside of Homer, Alaska on Kachemak Bay. Atz Kilcher is the fourth of eight siblings and oldest son. His siblings...
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  • Kilcher. He received 160 acres of land to homestead. This land was in the Kachemak Bay area, outside of Homer, Alaska. In 1939, Kilcher went back to Switzerland...
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    Kachemak, locally known as Kachemak City, is a small second-class city in the southern portion of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States....
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    River. Kachemak Bay, a small inlet off the larger Cook Inlet, extends into the peninsula's southwest end, much of which is part of Kachemak Bay State Park...
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    Ridgeway Salamatof Seldovia Village Sterling Sunrise Tyonek Jakolof Bay Kachemak Selo Razdolna Voznesenka Portlock The school district for the whole borough...
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    The spit is a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) long piece of land jutting out into Kachemak Bay. The spit is also home to the Homer Boat Harbor. The harbor contains...
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    1970 with the creation of Denali State Park, Chugach State Park and Kachemak Bay State Park, three of the largest and still most popular parks in the...
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    was 255 at the 2010 census, down from 286 in 2000. It is located along Kachemak Bay southwest of Homer. There is no road system connecting the town to other...
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    Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the...
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    residents who decided to leave Nikolaevsk and begin new settlements in the Kachemak Bay area. The name in Russian means Ascension (вознестись, voznestis' – to...
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    exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska. The museum's mission is to preserve "the stories of the Kachemak Bay region", through "collections...
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    the genus: †Shepherdia weaveri (Hollick) LaMotte - Paleocene/Eocene Kachemak Bay, Alaska The berry is recognizable by being a dark shade of red, with...
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    bordered on the west by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and on the south by Kachemak Bay State Park. The park can be reached from Seward, 130 mi (210 km) south...
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    -150.926178). It is at the head of Kachemak Bay, where the Fox River enters it. The CDP extends north from the bay to high ground north of Caribou Lake...
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    State Parks Afognak Island Chilkat Chugach Denali Kachemak Bay Point Bridget Shuyak Island Wood-Tikchik State Forests Haines Southeast Tanana Valley...
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    west part of the Diamond Ridge CDP borders Cook Inlet at the mouth of Kachemak Bay. The area is named for the high ground, Diamond Ridge, on which it sits...
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    feet (9.1 m), and the fourth highest in the world, behind Bay of Fundy (38 ft, 11.7 m), Ungava Bay (32 ft 0 in, 9.75 m), and Bristol Channel (31 ft, 9.6 m)...
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  • Disenchantment Bay Eschscholtz Bay Funter Bay Glacier Bay Goodhope Bay Hazen Bay Holtz Bay Kachemak Bay Kamishak Bay Kuskokwim Bay Kvichak Bay LeConte Bay Lituya...
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    Role of Estuarine Hydrodynamics in the Distribution of Kelp Forests in Kachemak Bay, Alaska". Journal of Coastal Research. 10045: 179–194. doi:10.2112/SI45-179...
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    nests may be located from 16 to 38 m (52 to 125 ft) in height. In Chesapeake Bay, nesting trees averaged 82 cm (32 in) in diameter and 28 m (92 ft) in total...
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    senator named Yule Kilcher disembarked in Seward. He was headed for Kachemak Bay, where he intended to take up residence, but was so intrigued by the...
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  • south side of Kachemak Bay. It is 10 miles (16 km) southwest of the city of Homer, across Kachemak Bay. The CDP extends from Seldovia Bay on the west,...
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  • a 13-mile-long (21 km) glacier located in the Kenai Mountains, near Kachemak Bay, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at 59°34′51″N 150°57′01″W /...
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  • this community is south of the city of Seldovia, across Kachemak Bay from Homer. Jakolof Bay is connected by road with Seldovia but neither community...
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    California to central Oregon. Sebastes nebulosus Ayres, 1854 China rockfish Kachemak Bay in the northern Gulf of Alaska to Redondo Beach and San Nicolas Island...
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    along the Kenai Peninsula, from the mouth of Turnagain Arm nearly to Kachemak Bay, is low and comparatively flat, but is for the most part heavily wooded...
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