Island of Admiralty
The island of Admiralty (in English Admiralty Island ) is one of the islands of the Archipel Alexandre in the South-eastern of Alaska. It has a surface of 4 264 km ² with a length of 145 km and 56 km broad. It is one of the islands ABC of Alaska.
Known by the Amerindians Tlingit under the name of Kootznoowoo or “fortress of the bear”, the island shelters the strongest density of Brown bear S of North America with a population estimated at 1 600 bears are 3 times more than the human population of the island. Angoon, community traditional Tlingit which shelters 572 people is the only agglomeration although an uninhabited section but of the town of Juneau covers 264,68 km ² (6,2%) of the north of the island. The total population, with the census of 2000, was of 650 inhabitants.
The major part of the island, more 3 860 km ², is occupied by the Admiralty Island National Monument - a federal zone of protection of the wild life. The wild life in the South-eastern of Alaska is single because it covers a great zone of primary Forêt. These forests provide the best possible habitat for species like the brown bear, the Pygargue with white head (wrongfully called eagle with white head) and a variety of stag-mule of the Rocky Mountains.
Admiralty Island also offers opportunities for outdoor re-creation in Southeast Alaska. The U.S. Forest Service maintains several public-uses cabins one the island, ace well ace the Cross Admiralty Canoe Road, which links the island' S lakes through has series off bearings.
The Pack Creek Brown Bear Viewing Area offers visitors the opportunity to observes brown bears in their natural habitat ace they fish for salmon and interact with one another during the summer months. Permits are required for all visitors to Pack Creek which edge Be attained through the Forest Service.
The Not Retreat Light is located one the northern tip off Admiralty and was important year aid-to-navigation. -->
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