Klawock
Prince of Wales Island is in Southeastern Alaska, and is one of the largest islands in the United States. Although it has several small communities, most of the island is part of the Tongass National Forest, which covers much of Southeastern Alaska.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 720 residents
- Description: city in Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Chla-wak-kon”, “Khlawak”, “Kiawak”, “Kilawak”, “Klawak City”, “Klawock, Alaska”, “Klawok”, “Klawook”, “Kliavakhan”, “Kliawak”, “Klyavakkhan”, “Lawaak”, “Lawak”, “Seleniye Klyakkhan”, “Thlewhakh”, “Tlevak”, and “Tlewak”
- Historically known as: “Klawak”
- Postal code: 99925
Places of Interest
Highlights include Klawock Airport.
Klawock Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Klawock Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Klawock, a city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Klawock Airport is situated 2 miles northeast of Klawock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Craig.
Craig
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Prince of Wales Island is in Southeastern Alaska, and is one of the largest islands in the United States. Although it has several small communities, most of the island is part of the Tongass National Forest, which covers much of Southeastern Alaska. Craig is situated 6 miles south of Klawock.
Klawock
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Prince of Wales-Hyder, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.55238° or 55° 33′ 9″ northLongitude
-133.09706° or 133° 5′ 49″ westPopulation
720Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)IATA airport code
KLWUnited Nations Location Code
US KLWOpen location code
9478HW23+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 150916682OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5554566Wikidata ID
Q79338
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Klawock” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Klawock, Alaska”
- Albanian: “Klawock”
- Arabic: “كلاووك”
- Basque: “Klawock”
- Basque: “Lawáak”
- Catalan: “Klawock”
- Cebuano: “Klawock”
- Central Kurdish: “کڵاوۆک، ئالاسکا”
- Chamorro: “Klawock”
- Chechen: “Клавок”
- Chinese: “Klawock”
- Chinese: “克拉瓦克”
- Croatian: “Klawak”
- Czech: “Klawock”
- Danish: “Klawock”
- Dutch: “Klawock”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كلاووك”
- French: “Klawock”
- German: “Klawock”
- Gilaki: “کلاوک”
- Haitian: “Klawock”
- Irish: “Klawock”
- Italian: “Klawock”
- Japanese: “クラウォック(アラスカ)”
- Japanese: “クラウォック（アラスカ州）”
- Japanese: “クラウォック”
- Ladin: “Klawock”
- Malagasy: “Klawock, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Klawock”
- Malayalam: “ക്ലാവോക്ക്, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “ക്ലാവോക്ക്”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Klawock”
- Newari: “क्लाउवोक, अलास्का”
- Newari: “क्लाउवोक”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Klawock”
- Norwegian: “Klawock”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Klawock”
- Persian: “کلاووک، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “کلاووک، الاسکا”
- Persian: “کلاووک”
- Polish: “Klawock”
- Portuguese: “Klawock”
- Russian: “Клавок”
- Serbian: “Клејвок”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Klawock, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Klawock”
- Slovak: “Klawock”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلاووک، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلاووک”
- Spanish: “Klawock”
- Tatar: “Клавок”
- Ukrainian: “Клавок”
- Uzbek: “Klawock”
- Volapük: “Klawock”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Klawock Seaplane Base and Saint John by the Sea Catholic Church.
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