Alaska: Kenai Peninsula, Prince William Sound
80 images Created 15 Mar 2012
View photos of: -- Kenai Peninsula: hiking and cruising Kenai Fjords National Park, Exit Glacier Trail, Harding Icefield, Kenai Mountains, wild mountain goat, Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) playing with a firehose in an aquarium tank at the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward, red fall foliage colors, pink magenta dwarf fireweed flower, Aialik Glacier and Bay, Portage Glacier, Portage Lake, Chugach National Forest, orange lichen pattern, Turnagain Arm, Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai (1896) and Ninilchik (1901), Homer Small Boat Harbor, Salty Dawg Saloon lighthouse, Kachemak Bay, a worker filleting Halibut fish, flags on mast (US, Alaska, POW/MIA, American Legion), yellow sunset colors, RV with snowy mountains. -- Prince William Sound: College Fjord, Barry Arm, Harriman Fjord, tidewater glaciers (Cascade, Barry, Surprise, Harriman, Serpentine), icefall, Kittiwake bird rookery, Chugach Mountains, Harriman Fjord, Whittier, RV map.
![The Russian Orthodox Church in the town of Ninilchik was redesigned and constructed in 1901 in Alaska, USA. In the graveyard, notice that the Russian Orthodox Cross has two extra arms: the top arm represents the inscribed acronyms [ INRI in Latin, in Greek, and a Hebrew version, meaning "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews" ], and the angled bottom arm is his footrest. Russian Orthodox religion was born in Kiev in the "land of the Rus" in 988 AD as a branch of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. After Russian discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands in 1741, Russian fur traders taught Christianity to Alaskan Natives. The first eight Russian Orthodox missionaries came to Kodiak Island, Alaska (Russian America) in 1794. The religion spread amongst Alaskans, and the monks mission was made a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church a few years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. Ninilchik is on the Sterling Highway on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula on the coast of Cook Inlet, 186 miles by road from Anchorage and 38 miles from Homer. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act recognized Ninilchik as an Alaska Native village. Ninilchik hosts the annual Kenai Peninsula State Fair.](https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000pRk3TL.ElxU/fit=180x180/fill=/g=G0000KK74EQYNLrs/I0000pRk3TL.ElxU.jpg)
![A worker fillets a halibut, which is a flatfish, genus Hippoglossus, from the family of the right-eye flounders (Pleuronectidae). In Alaska, the town of Homer claims to be the "halibut fishing capital of the world." Village nicknames include "Homer - a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem" [bumper sticker] and "the end of the road." Homer is the southernmost town on the contiguous Alaska highway system. Homer is at the end of Sterling Highway (part of Alaska Route 1) on Kenai Peninsula, on the shore of Kachemak Bay, Alaska, USA. For licensing options, please inquire.](https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000n1UkOQP3PWk/fit=180x180/fill=/g=G0000KK74EQYNLrs/I0000n1UkOQP3PWk.jpg)
![The Russian Orthodox Church in the town of Ninilchik was redesigned and constructed in 1901 in Alaska, USA. Notice that the Russian Orthodox Cross has two extra arms: the top arm represents the inscribed acronyms [ INRI in Latin, in Greek, and a Hebrew version, meaning "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews" ], and the angled bottom arm is his footrest. Russian Orthodox religion was born in Kiev in the "land of the Rus" in 988 AD as a branch of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. After Russian discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands in 1741, Russian fur traders taught Christianity to Alaskan Natives. The first eight Russian Orthodox missionaries came to Kodiak Island, Alaska (Russian America) in 1794. The religion spread amongst Alaskans, and the monks mission was made a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church a few years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. Ninilchik is on the Sterling Highway on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula on the coast of Cook Inlet, 186 miles by road from Anchorage and 38 miles from Homer. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act recognized Ninilchik as an Alaska Native village. Ninilchik hosts the annual Kenai Peninsula State Fair.](https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000spJwON0QAME/fit=180x180/fill=/g=G0000KK74EQYNLrs/I0000spJwON0QAME.jpg)