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Encyclopedia > Gastineau Channel

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Local Area Place Names (19387 words)
Baker's "Geographic Dictionary of Alaska" says of Gastineau Channel: "So named on Homfray's manuscript map of 1867, furnished to the Western Bay Company's Steamers, which in turn took its name from the Gastineau or Gatineau River of Quebec, a branch of the Ottawa." This explanation is unsatisfactory.
Gastineau was born in London in 1820, the son of a noted English water color artist.
Early in 1881 he was sent to the new mining camp on Gastineau Channel with a detachment of 22 men to keep order and was active in establishing the town.
High school student paper: Cruise Ship Waste (4863 words)
Southeast Alaska’s Gastineau Channel, located near Juneau, is a semi-enclosed fjord, an environment that requires protection from the waste generated by cruise ships transiting this waterway en route Juneau.
Southeast Alaska’s Gastineau Channel is a semi-enclosed fjord that, because of the oceanographic location, deserves more consideration when presented with the cruise industry and their waste practices.
Gastineau Channel is a restricted fjord leading to Juneau in the Alexander Archipelago Southeast region of Alaska.
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