Portage Bay

Portage Bay is a bay in Petersburg Borough, Alaska. Portage Bay is situated nearby to the village Kake.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kake Airport and Kake Cannery.

Kake Airport

Aerodrome

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Kake Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Kake, a city in the Petersburg Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Kake Cannery

Building

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The Kake Cannery is a historic fish processing facility near Kake, Alaska. Operated by a variety of companies between 1912 and 1977, the cannery was one of many which operated in Southeast Alaska, an area historically rich in salmon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kake.

Kake

Village

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Kake is a first-class city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 557 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Tlingit word Ḵéix̱ʼ or Ḵéex̱ʼ, which is derived from ḵée 'dawn, daylight' and x̱ʼé 'mouth', i.e.

Portage Bay

Type: Bay
Address: AK
Category: body of water
Location: Petersburg Borough, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude

56.94583° or 56° 56′ 45″ north

Longitude

-133.89167° or 133° 53′ 30″ west

Open location code

9488W4W5+88

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369148323

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

5556499

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