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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • England and America Lowell Peak, near Seward, Alaska Lowell Peak (Chugach Mountains), near Whittier, Alaska Hurricane Lowell (disambiguation), the name...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Car float (section Alaska)
    Harbour to Ogden Point The Alaska Railroad provides the Alaska Rail Marine rail barge service from downtown Seattle to Whittier on the central Alaskan mainland...
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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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    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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  • 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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    occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the...
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    the 1960s to 2000, the town of Whittier, Alaska could be reached by vehicle by way of a train shuttle through the Whittier tunnel. In 2000, the expanded...
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    will end in Whittier or Seward. An alternative Gulf of Alaska cruise starts in Whittier (Anchorage) and also passes through southeast Alaska's Inside Passage...
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  • 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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