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Virtual Guidebook to
South Central Alaska |
On a cruise ship in Yakutat Bay.
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Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)
- Mat-Su Valleys (4)
- Hatcher Pass Road (5)
- Glenn Highway (1)
- Anchorage (10)
- Anchorage Area (4)
- Turnagain Arm (2)
- Portage Glacier (2)
- College Fiord (3)
- Valdez Narrows (3)
- Valdez (3)
- Valdez Pipeline Terminal (3)
- Yakutat Bay (8)
- Hubbard Glacier (5)
- Alaskan Cruise Ship (2)
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- Complete Listing
listed from northwest to southeast
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- The Mat-Su Valleys
- The Matanuska River runs through a narrows near Palmer.
- The Mat-Su Valleys are Alaska's principal agricultural area.
- Palmer was the start for the narrow gauge Matanuska Valley Railroad.
- Downtown Willow — almost the capital of Alaska.
- Hatcher Pass Road
- Tundra on the Hatcher Pass Road in the Talkeetna Mountains.
- Great views along the Hatcher Pass Road.
- A tarn at Hatcher Pass summit in the Talkeetna Mountains.
- A distant view of the Independence Mine, restored and open to the public.
- Lush vegetation above timberline on the south slope of the Talkeetna Mountains.
- The Glenn Highway
- The vast braided channel of the Matanuska River.
- Downtown Anchorage
- The start of the famous Iditarod sled dog race, Fourth Avenue at D Street, Anchorage.
- Reindeer sausage is offered by street vendors on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage.
- Totem pole group "Attaining Balance Within" outside the courthouse.
- The Anchorage Hilton stands right at the edge of the area that subsided in the 1964 eathquake.
- The Alaska Railroad station at the foot of the hill in Anchorage.
- The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts opposite the convention center in downtown Anchorage.
- Captain Cook looks out over Cook Inlet from Resolution Park.
- The Fifth Avenue Mall and parking garage in Anchorage.
- The Anchorage Visitor Center is in a sod-roofed cabin on Fourth Avenue.
- The Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
- In the Anchorage Area
- Otter Lake, a recreation site on Fort Richardson Military Reservation.
- Saint Innocent Orthodox Cathedral, in the northeastern suburbs of Anchorage.
- The view over Cook Inlet from Earthquake Park.
- This birch forest masks the destruction of the earthquake-triggered Turnagain Slide.
- Turnagain Arm
- The north shore of Turnagain Arm, near Girdwood.
- Windy Point (and it was!) on Turnagain Arm.
- The Portage Glacier and Whittier
- There are icebergs at the visitor center, but the Portage Glacier has receded out of sight.
- Tunnels connect the main rooms at the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center.
- College Fiord, in Prince William Sound
- Entering College Fiord, with the Vassar and Bryn Mawr Glaciers.
- Cold, wet, and windy weather in College Fiord.
- The Harvard Glacier at the head of College Fiord, a branch of Prince William Sound.
- (MS Ryndam leaving College Fiord.)
- Valdez Narrows in Prince William Sound
- Valdez Narrows, Prince William Sound.
- A hanging glacier and a thousand foot waterfall in Valdez Narrows.
- MS Ryndam's swimming pool in the cold rain of Prince William Sound.
- Valdez
- Fog in Valdez Arm as MS Ryndam approaches the port of Valdez.
- The port of Valdez, morning mist and rain.
- World's largest floating concrete dock, port of Valdez, with MS Ryndam.
- The Alyeska Pipeline Terminal in Valdez
- An interpretive viewpoint overlooking the Alyeska Pipeline complex at Valdez.
- Looking over Valdez Harbor, terminus of the 800 mile long Alaska Pipeline.
- This statue commemorates the workers who built the Alaska Pipeline.
- Yakutat Bay
- Mount Saint Elias makes a rare appearance, north of Yakutat Bay.
- Approaching Yakutat Bay through the early morning shadows.
- Icebergs at the entrance to Yakutat Bay, alongside the vast Malaspina Glacier.
- Entering Yakutat Bay, a fiord in the Saint Elias Mounains.
- Floating ice in Yakutat Bay.
- The MS Ryndam steaming slowly up Yakutat Bay.
- Next to the binnacle on the sky deck of MS Ryndam, Yakutat Bay.
- Leaving Yakutat Bay, from the sky deck of MS Ryndam.
- The Hubbard Glacier
- Covered swimming pool and bar service on MS Ryndam in Yakutat Bay.
- The MS Ryndam within one mile of the terminus of the Hubbard Glacier.
- The steaming hot swimming pool on MS Ryndam, contrasting with the glacial ice all around.
- Veranda deck of MS Ryndam, near the Hubbard Glacier in Yakutat Bay.
- Swimming on the Lido Deck as MS Ryndam leaves the Hubbard Glacier behind.
- Holland America Line's MS Ryndam, on an Alaska Cruise
- The lower promenade deck, under the lifeboats, Holland America's cruise ship MS Ryndam.
- The central atrium on Holland America's cruise ship MS Ryndam.
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