Haines

Haines is a small port community in on the shores of the Lynn Canal, the state's longest fjord. It is surrounded by glacier-covered mountains of the Coast Range.
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  • Type: Town with 1,710 residents
  • Description: city in Alaska, USA
  • Also known as: “Chilcoot”, “Chilkat”, “Chilkoot”, “Daschu”, “Deshu”, “Dtehshuh”, “Haines Mission”, “Haines, AK”, “Haines, Alaska”, “Kutkwutlu”, and “Willard Mission”
  • Postal code: 99827

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hammer Museum and Haines Seaplane Base.

Museum
Photo: Mycota, Public domain.
The , located in Haines, Alaska, , is the first museum in the world dedicated to hammers. The museum was founded in 2002 and became a non-profit organization in 2004.

Aerodrome
is a public-use seaplane base located in Haines, Alaska. It is owned by Haines Borough. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

Haines

Latitude
59.2358° or 59° 14′ 9″ north
Longitude
-135.445° or 135° 26′ 42″ west
Population
1,710
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
IATA airport code
HNS
United Nations Location Code
US HNS
Open location code
94F66HP4+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150921918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5846901
Wiki­data ID
Q79546
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Haines” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هينز (ألاسكا)”
  • Arabic: “هينز”
  • Asturian: “Haines”
  • Basque: “Haines”
  • Bavarian: “Haines”
  • Catalan: “Haines”
  • Cebuano: “Haines”
  • Chechen: “Гейнс”
  • Chinese: “Haines”
  • Chinese: “哈尼斯自治鎮”
  • Chinese: “海恩斯”
  • Czech: “Haines”
  • Dagbani: “Haines”
  • Dutch: “Haines”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هينز”
  • Finnish: “Haines”
  • French: “Haines”
  • German: “Haines”
  • Gilaki: “هینس”
  • Haitian: “Haines”
  • Hungarian: “Haines”
  • Irish: “Haines”
  • Italian: “Haines”
  • Japanese: “ヘインズ”
  • Ladin: “Haines”
  • Lithuanian: “Heinsas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haines”
  • Newari: “हेइन्स (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “हेइन्स, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “हेइन्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haines”
  • Norwegian: “Haines”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Haines”
  • Persian: “هینز، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “هینز، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “هینز”
  • Polish: “Haines”
  • Portuguese: “Haines”
  • Russian: “Хейнс”
  • Serbian: “Хајнс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Haines, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Haines”
  • Slovak: “Haines”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هینز، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هینز”
  • Spanish: “Haines (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Haines”
  • Swedish: “Haines”
  • Talysh: “Hejns”
  • Tatar: “Гейнс”
  • Ukrainian: “Гейнс”
  • Urdu: “ہینز، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “ہینز”
  • Uzbek: “Haines”
  • Venetian: “Haines”
  • Volapük: “Haines”
  • Western Mari: “Хейнс”

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