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Kenai Fjords National Park on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula preserves a vast glacial landscape of ice, mountains, fjords, bays, and islands centered on the Harding Icefield, from which more than thirty glaciers flow to the coast. Shaped by both glaciation and the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate, the area includes deeply submerged fjords and more than half its acreage under ice. Archaeological evidence shows habitation from about 950 AD into the twentieth century, and historic gold mining occurred around Nuka Bay. First established as a national monument in 1978, it became a national park in 1980 and remains one of Alaska’s more accessible parks.
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Lowell Point, Alaska · United States
