Kodiak is a modern city with a rich history. It sits in the middle of the world's most productive fishing grounds, making it Alaska's largest fishing port. Kodiak is a service base for fishing vessels in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea.
The Kodiak Island Archipelago is about 177 miles long and encompasses nearly 5,000 square miles. At 3,588 square miles, Kodiak Island is the largest in the group. Ten thousand years ago, most of the islands were covered by glaciers that scored and carved the landscape. Jagged mountain peaks, fjord-like bays and wide u-shaped valleys were left by the glacial retreat.
Nature's handiwork created a place of spectacular scenic beauty and a wilderness ideally suited for land, sea and marine life. Two-thirds of the island consists of the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. Close to 3,000 giant Kodiak brown bears make their home here, along with deer, fox, goat, sea lions, whales, salmon, crab and halibut. Sea otters and river otters grace the waterways with their playful antics. Eagles, puffins, cormorants, gulls and ducks are but a few of the feathered inhabitants of Kodiak.
Blessed with a temperate marine climate, Kodiak Island offers year round visitors year-round events and activities such as hiking and boating, fishing and hunting, scuba diving, flying, beachcombing, bird watching, sightseeing and photography.
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