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Alexander Archipelago

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Alexander Archipelago

Group of over a thousand islands in the Gulf of Alaska, off the coast south of Juneau in southeast Alaska. Fishing, fish processing, lumbering, and trapping are the main industries. The largest islands in the group are Baranof Island, Prince of Wales, Chichagof, Admiralty, Kuin, Kupreanof, and Revillagigedo, which are densely forested. The principal towns are Ketchikan (on Revillagigedo Island), Sitka (on Baranof Island), Petersburg (on Mitkof Island), and Wrangell (on Wrangell Island). Long inhabited by the Tlingit, the islands were first explored by Russians in 1741. Most are now part of the Tongass National Forest.


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They settled in the Alexander Archipelago, a small chain of windswept islands along the coast of the Alaska Panhandle (see map, p.
A jawbone, three vertebrae and a pelvic bone, which showed signs of a carnivore's gnawing, were found on Prince of Wales Island, part of the Alexander Archipelago, on July 4.
 
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