KENAI FJORDS NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA

Kenai Fjords National Park is a United States National Park established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The park covers an area of approximately 1,760 sq mi (4,600 km2) on the Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska, near the town of Seward. The park contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest ice fields in the United States. The park is named for the numerous fjords carved by glaciers moving down the mountains from the ice field. The field is the source of at least 38 glaciers, the largest of which is Bear Glacier.

The park can be reached from Seward, 130 mi (210 km) south of Anchorage at the southern terminus of the Seward Highway. It is only one of three national parks in Alaska that can be reached by road, via the Exit Glacier Nature Center. A network of trails from the Nature Center provide access to the glacier, and the 7.4-mile (11.9 km)

Cruise tours originating from Seward also provide access to the park via Resurrection Bay. Various companies offer tours, many guided by National Park Rangers. The tours provide views of land and marine wildlife, particularly Steller sea lions, puffins, Dall's porpoises, American black bear, Mountain goats, and humpback and orca whales, as well as natural sights such as the fjords and tidewater glaciers.

You can see here the Wildlife that you can obserb in Kenai Fjords National Park.

Here you have some examples, but if you press here: Wildlife you will see much more:

alaska wildlife

You also can visit the Glaciers

You can visit it from Seward

Some of the companies where you can take a boat are:

Majormarine tour Renowntours tour Kenaifjords

If you want you also can rent a kayak and do kayaking around the Kenai Fjods National Park.


July 2008


See also
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WILDLIFE In ALASKA

GLACIERS

Chugach State Park

Kenai Fjords National Park

Seward

Homer

Sterling

Nikolaevsk (Russian village)

Soldotna

Trapper Creek

Mountains in Alaska

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Write by: AN - Tuesday, July 29, 2008