Homer
Homer is a city on the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska and is long known as the "Halibut Fishing Capital of the World." It is also known as the "End of the Road".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: city in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Homer, Alaska”
- Postal code: 99603
Places of Interest
Highlights include Homer Public Library and Pratt Museum.
Homer Public Library
Library
Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Homer Public Library is located at 500 Hazel Avenue in Homer, Alaska. It serves the communities of the Southern Kenai Peninsula from Ninilchik to the south side of Kachemak Bay.
Pratt Museum
Museum
Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska.
Homer High School
School
Photo: Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homer High School is located in Homer, Alaska. It is part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. The school's mascot is a mariner, usually represented by a wheel or sometimes an anchor.
Homer
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.6454° or 59° 38′ 44″ northLongitude
-151.5446° or 151° 32′ 40″ westPopulation
5,000Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)IATA airport code
HOMOpen location code
93FCJFW4+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 150917881OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Homer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هومير”
- Azerbaijani: “Homer”
- Basque: “Homer”
- Belarusian: “Хомер”
- Bengali: “হুমার”
- Catalan: “Homer”
- Cebuano: “Homer”
- Central Kurdish: “ھۆمەر، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Гомер”
- Chinese: “Homer”
- Chinese: “荷馬”
- Chinese: “荷马”
- Czech: “Homer”
- Dagbani: “Homer”
- Danish: “Homer, Alaska”
- Danish: “Homer”
- Dutch: “Homer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هومير”
- Esperanto: “Homer”
- Estonian: “Homer”
- Finnish: “Homer”
- French: “Homer”
- German: “Homer”
- Gilaki: “هؤمر”
- Greek: “Χόμερ”
- Gujarati: “હોમર”
- Haitian: “Homer”
- Hebrew: “הומר”
- Hindi: “होमर”
- Hungarian: “Homer”
- Indonesian: “Homer, Alaska”
- Indonesian: “Homer”
- Irish: “Homer, Alasca”
- Irish: “Homer”
- Italian: “Homer”
- Japanese: “ホーマー”
- Kannada: “ಹೋಮರ್”
- Korean: “호머”
- Ladin: “Homer”
- Latvian: “Homera”
- Lithuanian: “Homeris”
- Lithuanian: “Houmeris”
- Malagasy: “Homer, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Homer”
- Malay: “Homer”
- Malayalam: “ഹോമർ, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “ഹോമർ”
- Marathi: “होमर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Homer”
- Newari: “होमर, अलास्का”
- Newari: “होमर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Homer”
- Norwegian: “Homer”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Homer”
- Persian: “میلر لندینگ، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “میلر لندینگ، الاسکا”
- Persian: “میلر لندینگ”
- Polish: “Homer”
- Portuguese: “Homer”
- Russian: “Хомер”
- Serbian: “Хомер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Homer, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Homer”
- Sicilian: “Homer”
- Sinhala: “හෝමර්”
- Slovak: “Homer”
- South Azerbaijani: “میلر لندینق، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “میلر لندینق”
- Spanish: “Homer, Alaska”
- Spanish: “Homer”
- Swedish: “Homer, Alaska”
- Swedish: “Homer”
- Talysh: “Homer (šəhr)”
- Talysh: “Homer”
- Tamil: “ஹோமர்”
- Tatar: “Гомер”
- Telugu: “హోమర్”
- Thai: “โฮเมอร์”
- Turkish: “Homer, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Homer”
- Ukrainian: “Гомер”
- Urdu: “ہومر، الاسکا”
- Urdu: “ہومر”
- Uzbek: “Homer”
- Vietnamese: “Homer”
- Volapük: “Homer”
- Waray (Philippines): “Homer, Alaska”
- Waray (Philippines): “Homer”
- Western Mari: “Хомер”
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