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Skagway

Skagway is a town with a population of less than a thousand in . It is the northern terminus of the Alaska Marine Highway System. It sprang up during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-1899, and now subsists almost entirely on tourism.
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  • Type: Town with 920 residents
  • Description: consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Municipality and Borough of Skagway”, “Schkague”, “Shkagway”, “Skagwa”, and “Skagway, Alaska”
  • Historically known as: “Skaguay”
  • Postal code: 99840

Places of Interest

Highlights include Skagway Airport and Skagway Seaplane Base.

Aerodrome
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is a state-owned public-use in the city of Skagway, Alaska. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a nonprimary commercial service airport based on 7,532 enplanements in 2012.

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

Skagway

Latitude
59.4554° or 59° 27′ 19″ north
Longitude
-135.3153° or 135° 18′ 55″ west
Population
920
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
IATA airport code
SGY
United Nations Location Code
US SGY
Open location code
94F6FM4M+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150920839
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5557317
Wiki­data ID
Q615975
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Skagway” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سكاغواي (ألاسكا)”
  • Arabic: “سكاغواي”
  • Armenian: “Սկեգուեյ շրջան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skakvey”
  • Catalan: “Skagway”
  • Cebuano: “Skagway Municipality”
  • Cebuano: “Skagway”
  • Chechen: “Скагуэй”
  • Chinese: “Skagway”
  • Chinese: “史凯威”
  • Czech: “Skagway”
  • Dagbani: “Skagway”
  • Danish: “Skagway”
  • Dutch: “Skagway”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكاجواى”
  • Esperanto: “Skagway”
  • Finnish: “Skagway”
  • French: “Municipalité de Skagway”
  • French: “Skagway”
  • Georgian: “სკაგუეი”
  • German: “Skagway”
  • Gilaki: “اسکگوی شهرستان”
  • Haitian: “Skagway”
  • Hebrew: “סקגוויי”
  • Indonesian: “Skagway, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Skagway”
  • Irish: “Buirg Skagway, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Buirg Skagway”
  • Italian: “Skagway”
  • Japanese: “スカグウェイ”
  • Japanese: “スギャクウェー”
  • Korean: “스캐그웨이”
  • Ladin: “Skagway”
  • Lithuanian: “Skagvėjus”
  • Macedonian: “Скагвеј”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکگوی شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skagway”
  • Newari: “स्काग्वे, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “स्काग्वे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skagway”
  • Norwegian: “Skagway”
  • Persian: “اسکگوی، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “اسکگوی”
  • Polish: “Okręg Skagway”
  • Polish: “Skagway”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito de Skagway”
  • Russian: “Скагуэй”
  • Serbian: “Скагвеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skagway, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skagway”
  • Slovak: “Skagway”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سکاقوای، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سکاقوای”
  • Spanish: “Skagway”
  • Swedish: “Skagway”
  • Talysh: “Skaguej”
  • Tatar: “Скагуэй”
  • Turkish: “Skagway belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Skagway Municipality”
  • Turkish: “Skagway, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Skagway”
  • Ukrainian: “Скагвай”
  • Ukrainian: “Скагвей”
  • Ukrainian: “Скагуей”
  • Urdu: “سکیگوے، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “سکیگوے”
  • Venetian: “Skagway”
  • Volapük: “Skagway”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skagway, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skagway”
  • Welsh: “Skagway, Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Skagway”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Skagway”. Photo: Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0.