Anchorage, Alaska

Geography
Cook Inlet contains active volcanoes, including Augustine Volcano. Volcano eruption has been associated with earthquakes and tsunamis, and debris avalanches have resulted in tsunamis also.[3] There was an earthquake of the magnitude of 7.1 on December 31, 1901 generated by an eruption that causes several tsunamis.[4]

History

The inlet was first explored by Russian independent fur hunters (promyshlennik), and later the Lebedev Lastochkin Company leader Stepan Zaikov established a post at the mouth of the Kenai River, Fort Nikolaev, in 1786. These fur trappers used Siberian Native and Alaska Natives, particularly Aleutian Islands natives, to hunt for sea otters and other marine mammal species for trade with China via Russia's then-exclusive inland port of trade at Kiakhta. Other Europeans to visit Cook Inlet include the 1778 expedition of James Cook who sailed into it while searching for the Northwest Passage. Cook received maps of Alaska, the Aleutians, and Kamchatka during a visit with Russian fur trader Gerasim Izmailov in Unalaska, and combined these maps with those of his expedition to create the first Mercator projection of the North Pacific. The inlet was named after Cook in 1794 by George Vancouver, who had served under Cook in 1778. Turnagain Arm was named by William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame. Bligh served as Cook's Sailing Master on his 3rd and final voyage, with the aim to discover the Northwest Passage.

Upon reaching the head of Cook Inlet, Bligh was of the opinion that both Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm were the mouths of rivers and not the opening to the Northwest Passage. Under Cook's orders Bligh organized a party to travel up Knik Arm, which quickly returned to report Knik Arm indeed lead only to a river.

Afterwards a second party was dispatched up Turnagain Arm and it too returned to report only a river lay ahead. As a result of this frustration the second body of water was given the disingenuous name "Turn Again". Early maps label Turnagain Arm as the "Turnagain River".

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[Wishlist2day]

This place looks beautiful compared to Las Vegas. It looks nice and cool.

[stinkingdog101]

i know exactly where this is my cousin is in the air national guard and works in Anchorage