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Baranof Island

[bar-uh-nawf, -nof, buh-rah-nuhf]

noun

  1. an island in SE Alaska, part of the Alexander Archipelago. 1,607 sq. mi. (4,162 sq. km).



Baranof Island

/ ˈæəə /

noun

  1. an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)

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Over 17 years of field work with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Mr. White fitted radio collars on 421 goats in the Klukwan, Lynn Canal, Baranof Island and Cleveland Peninsula regions of southeastern Alaska.

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Robidou, 32, was working with Kingfisher Charters, which operates a lodge in Sitka, a small port city on Baranof Island with a backdrop of a stunning volcanic mountain.

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The small port city with a backdrop of a stunning volcanic mountain is located on the shore of Baranof Island, which is part of a cluster of islands dripping off Alaska’s southeast coastline.

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The fort was built in the early 1800s by the Tlingit people in Sitka, which is on Baranof Island and part of what is now known as the Alaska Panhandle, to defend themselves from Russian invaders in the Battle of 1804, according to the National Park Service website.

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In footage recorded off Baranof Island in south-east Alaska, whales corral young salmon in “bubble nets”, then rise up from beneath and swish the fish into their mouths with elaborate movements of their pectoral fins.

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