Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of . It is located on the east side of the .
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: sound of the Gulf of Alaska
  • Also known as: Chugach Sound”, “Chugatch Sound”, “Chugatskay Zaliv”, “Entrada del Prince Guillermo”, “Guba Chugatskaya ili Printsa Villiama”, “Prince William’s Sound”, “Prince Williams Sound”, “Sandwich Sound”, “Sund Tschugark”, and “Tchougatskoi Golfe
  • Address: AK

Prince William Sound

Latitude
60.615° or 60° 36′ 54″ north
Longitude
-147.16806° or 147° 10′ 5″ west
Open location code
93GJJR8J+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369148371
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
5872088
Wiki­data ID
Q631282
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Prince William Sound” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: لسان برينس وليام البحري
  • Azerbaijani: Şahzadə Vilhelm boğazı
  • Basque: Prince William Sound
  • Catalan: estret del Príncep Guillem
  • Catalan: Estret del Príncep Guillem
  • Catalan: Prince William Sound
  • Cebuano: Prince William Sound
  • Chinese: 威廉王子湾
  • Danish: Prince William Sound
  • Dutch: Prince William Sound
  • Esperanto: Marbrako de Princo Vilhelmo
  • Finnish: Prince William Sound
  • French: baie du Prince-William
  • French: Baie du Prince-William
  • Galician: Prince William Sound
  • German: Prinz-William-Sund
  • Hebrew: מפרץ הנסיך ויליאם
  • Indonesian: Prince William Sound
  • Indonesian: Teluk Pangeran William
  • Italian: Stretto di Prince William
  • Japanese: プリンス・ウィリアム湾
  • Javanese: Prince William Sound
  • Korean: 프린스 윌리엄 해협
  • Lithuanian: Princo Viljamo įlanka
  • Malayalam: പ്രിൻസ് വില്യം സൗണ്ട്
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Prince William-sundet
  • Norwegian: Prince William-sundet
  • Polish: Zatoka Księcia Williama
  • Portuguese: Enseada do Príncipe Guilherme
  • Russian: Принс-Уильям
  • Russian: Пролив Принца Вильгельма
  • Serbo-Croatian: Princ William (zaljev)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Princ William
  • Spanish: Prince William Sound
  • Swedish: Prince William Sound
  • Ukrainian: Затока Принца Вільгельма
  • Venetian: Prince William Sound

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