Port Walter

Port Walter is located on the southeastern side of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. It is made up of two parts: Little Port Walter and Big Port Walter.

Little Port Walter was the home of a herring saltery during the turn on the century and the ruins can still be seen. Little Port Walter had a small community at one time but has been replaced by a research station that studies the life cycles of several species of Salmon. There is a staff of 3–15 state and federal employees running the research station year-round. There is a dock, and the harbor itself is a safe anchorage. cite web
title = Little Port Walter Facility
publisher = United States of America, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
url = http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/facilities/littleportwalter.htm ] cite web
title = Little Port Walter Field Station
publisher = United States of America, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
url = http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/abl/MarSalm/3lpw.html ]

Little Port Walter at coord|56|23|03|N|134|38|36|W cite web
title = Climate at Little Port Walter
publisher = Alaska Climate Research Center, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
url = http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/history/SouthEastern/Little.html ] annual precipitation averages over convert|200|in|cm|0. cite web
title = SouthEast Alaska Frequently Asked Questions, Precipitation at Little Port Walter
publisher = United States of America, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
url = http://gis.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/forest_facts/faqs/sea.shtml ] cite web
title = Little Port Walter monthly climate summary
publisher = Desert Research Institute, Western Regional Climate Center
url = http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?aklitt ]

Location

*State: AK
*County: Sitka

References

External links

*cite web
title = Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
publisher = United States of America, Geological Survey
url = http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/