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Crisp winter air clears over freshly snow-dusted trees in Tongass National Forest looking across the Icy Strait in the Inside Passage toward Southeast Alaska’s Chilkat Mountain Range. The region is known for it’s harsh winds and rugged landscape as well as it’s beauty that is seen in this aerial.
Chilkat, in the native Tlingit language, means “storage container for salmon.” The name was given because of warm springs that keep the Chilkat River from freezing during the winter as it flows through the mountain range, thus allowing salmon to spawn late in the season, and creating safe “storage.”
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
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alaska, alexander archipelago, chichagof island, chilkat range, coast mountains (alaska), coast ranges (alaska), color image, day, geography, getty, hoonah, image type, juneau icefield, mendenhall glacier, mendenhall lake, mountains, natural forces and phenomena, nobody, north america, number of people, outdoor, photography, precipitation, ridges, snow, tongass national forest, united states, weather
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
