Puffin Island
Puffin Island is an islet in Kodiak Island, Alaska. Puffin Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Aleksashkina.Places of Interest
Highlights include Trident Basin Seaplane Base and Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak.
Trident Basin Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Trident Basin Seaplane Base is a city-owned, public-use seaplane base located in the City of Kodiak, in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of United States. Trident Basin Seaplane Base is situated 2 miles northeast of Puffin Island.
Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak
Military installation
Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard located in Kodiak, Alaska. It is the largest in the service's Pacific Area, with a crew of 85 officers and 517 enlisted personnel, and the largest Coast Guard Base in terms of physical size at 23,000 acres. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak is situated 2 miles west of Puffin Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kodiak.
Kodiak
Photo: Coast Guard, Public domain.
Kodiak Island is in southwestern Alaska, in the Gulf of Alaska, 250 miles south of Anchorage. It is Alaska's largest island and second largest in the US, after the Big Island in Hawaii. The City of Kodiak is situated on the east shore of Kodiak Island.
Puffin Island
- Type: Islet
- Also known as: “Ostrov Toporkov” and “Toporkof”
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.75477° or 57° 45′ 17″ northLongitude
-152.43522° or 152° 26′ 7″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
9399QH37+WWOpenStreetMap ID
way 21527245OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
5872177
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