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ZIP Codes. 99921, 99925, 99928. Area code. 907. [ 1] Prince of Wales Island ( Tlingit: Taan) is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle. It is the fourth-largest island in the United States (after Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico) and the 97th-largest island in the world .
Prince of Wales Island ( French: Île du Prince-de-Galles) is an Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada. One of the larger members of the Arctic Archipelago, it lies between Victoria Island and Somerset Island and is south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands . For administrative purposes, it is divided between Qikiqtaaluk and Kitikmeot regions.
Prince of Wales. With an area of 204.6 km 2 (79 sq mi), Prince of Wales Island is the largest of the Torres Strait Islands. Being inhabited only by a few Kaurareg families (population 20 in 2001), it is very sparsely populated. The town in the north of the island is called Muralug ( 10.6003°S 142.2036°E ), after the native name of the island.
2419374 [11] Website. www.CraigAK.com. Craig ( Tlingit: Sháan Séet) is a [12] city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area in the Unorganized Borough [A] in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 1,036 at the 2020 census, [13] down from 1,201 in 2010.
On Your Knees Cave (49-PET-408) is an archaeological site located in southeastern Alaska ( Prince of Wales Island ). Human remains were found at the site in 1996 that dated between 9,730 ±60 and 9,880±50 radiocarbon YBP (Years Before Present) [1] or a calendrical date of 10,300 YBP. [2] In addition to human skeletal remains, stone tools and ...
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), 70 miles (61 nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang.
They include: [ 2] Barry Island (tidal island until the construction of Barry Docks in the 1880s) Berges Island, peninsula at Whitford Burrows, Gower. Dinas Island, peninsula on Pembrokeshire coast. Farchynys, locality beside Mawddach estuary, Bontddu, Gwynedd. Little Island, peninsula at the west end of the former Barry Island.
Captain Richard Hewitt, commanding officer of HMS Prince of Wales, said: “Being able to formally recognise the Spanish royal family, saluting King Filipe VI from the bridge of HMS Prince of ...