3881 x 2911 px | 32,9 x 24,6 cm | 12,9 x 9,7 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
31 maggio 2010
Ubicazione:
Kachemak Bay, Kenai Mountains, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA, United States, America
Altre informazioni:
One of the best ways to see the Big Picture in Alaska is to get above it all on a scenic flight. Kachemak Bay, Kenai Mountains, Homer Alaska. The Kenai Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Alaska. They extend 192 km (120 mi) northeast from the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula to the Chugach Mountains. The Harding and Sargent Icefields, as well as the many glaciers that originate from them, derive in the Kenai Mountains. Several prime fish-producing rivers, including the Kenai River and the Russian River, also flow from the mountains. Kachemak Bay is a 64-km-long (40 mi) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula. The communities of Homer, Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Nanwalek, Port Graham, and Kachemak City are on the bay as well as three Old Believer settlements in the Fox River area, Voznesenka, Kachemak Selo, and RazdolnKachemak Bay is also home to the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the largest reserve in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. It is a very active site of research and education. The bay hosts a remarkably high level of biological activity, due in part to water circulation patterns which keep shellfish larvae and nutrients in the bay.
