My favorite place:
A place that is one of my favorites to spend time is at our land-share cabin on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska.
My family tries to spend as much time as we can visiting the cabin throughout every season of the year. Hiking, hunting, berry-picking, cross-country skiing, book reading, and relaxing are some of the many activities that I enjoy doing when there. It is a very wild place to visit and you can feel you are in the true Alaskan wilderness the instant you set foot on it's shores.
- Admiralty Island is 90 mi long and 35 mi wide with an area of 1,646.4 sq mi, making it the seventh largest island in the United States and the 132nd largest island in the world.
- Known to the Tlingit as Xootsnoowú, which is sometimes interpreted as "Fortress of the Bear(s)" Admiralty Island is home to the highest density of brown bears in North America.
- An estimated 1,600 brown bears inhabit the island, outnumbering Admiralty's human residents nearly three to one.
Photos by James White.
Map courtesy of Google Earth.
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