Prince of Wales Island

1. An island of central Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago between Victoria and Somerset Islands.

2. An island of extreme southeast Alaska in the Alexander Archipelago. It is the largest island in the group.

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Prince of Wales Island

1. (Placename) an island in N Canada, in Nunavut. Area: about 36 000 sq km (14 000 sq miles)

2. (Placename) an island in SE Alaska, the largest island in the Alexander Archipelago. Area: about 4000 sq km (1500 sq miles)

3. (Placename) an island in NE Australia, in N Queensland in the Torres Strait

4. (Placename) the former name (until about 1867) of the island of Penang

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Prince′ of Wales′ Is′land

1. the largest island in the Alexander Archipelago, in SE Alaska. 2231 sq. mi. (5778 sq. km).

2. an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,830 sq. mi. (33,230 sq. km).

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Sunnahae Hotel is situated on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska at the southern part of the Alaska Panhandle.

On the Water

Now, three people have disappeared on Prince of Wales Island. Two are crew members of the reality TV show, Fishwives.

Open Carry

Regardless, it was a rush and a great first encounter on Prince of Wales Island!

BUDDIES, BRUINS & BOWS

These appeared like scattered small islands, when in fact they were headlands on Prince of Wales Island. One of Ross's officers, Leopold McClintock, later recounted (1857a:195) that it seemed any attempt to take a ship into this area "would not only fail, but lead to almost inevitable risk of destruction" because of the exceptionally heavy ice.

Who Discovered the Northwest Passage?

In 1975 a palaeontological expedition from Gottingen and Cologne universities (Germany) visited Arctic Canada (Langenstrassen & Schultze 1996) and inter alia collected agnathans and gnathostomes in Lower Devonian localities on the northern part of Prince of Wales Island (Fig.

A new species of cyathaspid (Vertebrata: Pteraspidomorphi: Heterostraci) from the Lower Devonian Drake Bay Formation, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Between 2010 and 2012, I radio-collared 154 neonatal deer on central Prince of Wales Island, the largest island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska (Fig.

Bald Eagle predation on Sitka Black-Tailed Deer fawns

The background to the songs is interesting --how they came about from simple ideas such as holidays with friends on Prince of Wales Island (Danville), relationships (Return to me) and friendships (Old men and the sea).

Steady steady: the life and music of Seaman Dan

Special problems on Prince of Wales Island The people most interested in this project were a group of individuals and small mill owners on Prince of Wales Island.

Physical properties and consumer reaction to use of compressed wood bricks in southeast Alaska

"I'm very comfortable with and supportive of the way the Forest Service is approaching the transition," says Michael Kampnich, a former logger, cop and harbormaster who works for The Nature Conservancy on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.

Transition for Tongass: once the heart of dozens of logging towns, Tongass National Forest is now shifting its focus from timber to salmon, creating a ripple effect for local economies and ecosystems alike