MELISSA FARLOW_MM7258_1075048.TIF
Fog drifts over a secluded estuary and the Thorne River on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The main island includes hundreds of adjacent smaller islands—a total of more than 2,600 square miles with 990 miles of coastline and countless bays coves, inlets, and points.
Fjords, steep-sided mountains, and dense forests characterize the island. Extensive tracts of limestone include karst features.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
- Keywords
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aerial views, alaska, alexander archipelago, color image, day, estuaries, fog, forests, forests and forestry, geography, gulf of alaska, inside passage, inside passage (alaska), national forests (alaska), natural forces and phenomena, nobody, north america, outdoors, pacific ocean, photography, prince of wales island, rivers, shorelines, thorne bay, tongass national forest, tributary streams, united states, water, weather
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
