Alexander Archipelago
The Alexander Archipelago is a 300-mile-long archipelago in North America lying off the southeastern coast of Alaska. It contains about 1,100 islands, the tops of submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Archipelago
- Description: archipelago in Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Aleksandra Arkipelago”, “Aleksandra Insularo”, “Aleksandri saared”, “Aleksandrov arhipelag”, “Alexander artxipelagoa”, “Alexander-Archipel”, “Alexander-saaristo”, “Alexanderin saaristo”, “Alexandersaaret”, “Archipel Alexander”, “Arquipélago Alexandre”, “Arquipélago de Alexander”, “Indian Arkipelagan”, “Indianischen Archipel”, “Kaloschen Archipel”, “Αρχιπέλαγος Αλεξάντερ”, “Αρχιπέλαγος του Αλέξανδρου”, “Александра архипелаг”, “Александровски Архипелаг”, “Александровский архипелаг”, “Аляксандра архіпелаг”, “ალექსანდრას არქიპელაგი”, “アリグザンダー諸島”, and “アレクサンダー諸島”
Alexander Archipelago
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Petersburg Borough, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
56.8° or 56° 48′ north
Longitude
-133.85° or 133° 51′ west
Elevation
1,480 feet (451 metres)
Open location code
9488R522+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=archipelago
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Alexander Archipelago” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرخبيل ألكسندر”
- Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրի կղզեխումբ”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu Alexander”
- Azerbaijani: “Aleksandr arxipelaqı”
- Basque: “Alexander uhartedia”
- Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Аляксандра”
- Bulgarian: “Александър”
- Catalan: “arxipèlag Alexander”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag Alexander”
- Cebuano: “Alexander Archipelago”
- Chinese: “亚历山大群岛”
- Chinese: “亞歷山大群島”
- Czech: “Alexandrovy ostrovy”
- Danish: “Alexanderarkipelaget”
- Dutch: “Alexanderarchipel”
- Esperanto: “Aleksandera Arkipelago”
- Estonian: “Aleksandri saarestik”
- Finnish: “Alexandersaarist”
- Finnish: “Alexandersaaristo”
- French: “archipel Alexandre”
- French: “Archipel Alexandre”
- Galician: “Arquipélago Alexander”
- Georgian: “ალექსანდრეს არქიპელაგი”
- German: “Alexanderarchipel”
- Greek: “Αλεξάνδρου Αρχιπέλαγος”
- Hebrew: “ארכיפלג אלכסנדר”
- Hungarian: “Alexander-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Alexander”
- Italian: “Arcipelago Alessandro”
- Japanese: “アレキサンダー諸島”
- Japanese: “アレグザンダー諸島”
- Kazakh: “Александр архипелагы”
- Korean: “알렉산더 제도”
- Latvian: “Aleksandra arhipelāgs”
- Lithuanian: “Aleksandro salynas”
- Macedonian: “Александров Архипелаг”
- Malayalam: “അലക്സാണ്ടർ ദ്വീപസമൂഹം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexanderøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexanderarkipelet”
- Norwegian: “Alexanderøyene”
- Persian: “مجمعالجزایر الکساندر”
- Polish: “Archipelag Aleksandra”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Alexandre”
- Russian: “Архипелаг Александра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alexander”
- Slovak: “Alexandrove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Alexander Archipelago”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago Alexander”
- Swedish: “Alexanderarkipelagen”
- Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะอะเล็กซานเดอร์”
- Turkish: “Alexander Takımadaları”
- Ukrainian: “Архіпелаг Олександра”
- Uzbek: “Aleksandr arxipelagi”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Alexander”
- Western Frisian: “Aleksanderarsjipel”
- Wu Chinese: “亚历山大群岛”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kake and Rowan Bay.
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Highlights: Entrance Island and Berry Island.
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