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The AJ Rock Dump - 2,500 feet Below

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The AJ Rock Dump - 2,500 feet Below

Picture taken from Mt. Roberts. Douglas, Alaska on Douglas Island is visble across Gastineau Channel from Mt. Roberts on the mainland. Lawson Creek and a small part of the Lawson Creek Delta is visible at the far upper right. On the Rock Dump at the [...]

Parking Garage at Telephone Hill Under Construction

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Parking Garage at Telephone Hill Under Construction

From left to right: Telephone Hill, Court Plaza Building on Main St., Parking Garage with the mechanical penthouse of the Dimond Courthouse on 4th St. showing above, Goldstein Building on 2nd Street, Miner’s Mercantile Building - 225 Front St. (Lyle’s Hardware and Furniture from 1956 into [...]

Tug and Barge in Fog

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Tug and Barge in Fog - Southeast of Juneau

Taken from the deck of the Alaska State Ferry Matanuska.
Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 6:43 a.m. ADT, June 24, 2001, © 2010

A Part of JAWS

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JAWS Wind Sensor Location Between Sunny Point and Lemon Creek

The wind sensors at the top of the steel pole are part of JAWS, the Juneau Airport Wind System which together with other wind sensors and Doppler wind profilers, provide information on winds, wind shear, and turbulence in the three dimensional space over [...]

The Way Things are Moved in Southeastern Alaska

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Returning from a Construction Job

Barge on Gastineau Channel with construction equipment returning from a construction site in Southeastern Alaska.
Picture by David Kent, 4:09 p.m. ADT, April 1, 2009, © 2009