Operation Alaskan Road
Just 15 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska, in a remote region of the Inside Passage, lies a pristine island rain forest known as Annette Island. It was founded by Anglican missionary William Duncan and 800 Tsimshian Indians in 1887, and in 1891, by Congressional Act, it became the Annette Island Rese...
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ftdtic:ADA592799 2023-05-15T17:02:19+02:00 Operation Alaskan Road Hall, Vicki D ARMY ENGINEER SCHOOL FORT LEONARD WOOD MO 2008-03 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA592799 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA592799 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA592799 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. DTIC Civil Engineering Surface Transportation and Equipment *ALASKA *CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT *CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS *MILITARY ENGINEERING *ROADS AIRPORTS ARMY COAST GUARD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE SYSTEMS GLOBAL ISLANDS LANDING FIELDS MILITARY ENGINEERS MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES) MOBILITY NETWORKS OCEANS PAVEMENTS REPRINTS SECOND WORLD WAR SHORES UNITED STATES VILLAGES WARFARE ALASKA ROAD OPERATION INSIDE PASSAGE(ALASKA) Text 2008 ftdtic 2016-02-24T13:31:45Z Just 15 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska, in a remote region of the Inside Passage, lies a pristine island rain forest known as Annette Island. It was founded by Anglican missionary William Duncan and 800 Tsimshian Indians in 1887, and in 1891, by Congressional Act, it became the Annette Island Reservation. In 1916, all waters and inlets within 3,000 feet of the island s shoreline were included. Today, Annette Island and its surrounding islands comprise the only Indian reservation in Alaska. Metlakatla, with 1,800 residents, is the only inhabited village on the 136-square-mile island. During World War II, a large airfield was built on the island as part of a defense network for the Canadian and American forces. After the war, the airfield became a United States Coast Guard search-and-rescue base, as well as a weather station for the United States Weather Bureau. For a brief period, the Federal Aviation Administration based personnel on-site. Until recently, it was the largest airfield in Alaska and continued to serve the area commercially until the 1970s. With the completion of the new Ketchikan Airport on Gravina Island, and the transfer of the Coast Guard Station to Sitka in 1977, Annette Field officially closed. Operation Alaskan Road is the fulfillment of a 50-year-old promise made to the Metlakatla Indian Community after World War II--by the Alaska Road Commission and the United States Army Corps of Engineers--to build a road connecting their ocean side city to Alaska s Inside Passage. This would allow year-round ferry service to Ketchikan, Alaska s fourth largest city. The economy of Metlakatla is poor because of limited mobility to jobs and trade centers in Ketchikan, and the unemployment rate hovers near 80 percent. Published in Engineer, p47-50, 2008. Text Ketchikan Tsimshian Tsimshian* Alaska Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database Indian Metlakatla ENVELOPE(-130.444,-130.444,54.337,54.337) Mile Island ENVELOPE(-54.448,-54.448,49.667,49.667) |
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Civil Engineering Surface Transportation and Equipment *ALASKA *CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT *CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS *MILITARY ENGINEERING *ROADS AIRPORTS ARMY COAST GUARD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE SYSTEMS GLOBAL ISLANDS LANDING FIELDS MILITARY ENGINEERS MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES) MOBILITY NETWORKS OCEANS PAVEMENTS REPRINTS SECOND WORLD WAR SHORES UNITED STATES VILLAGES WARFARE ALASKA ROAD OPERATION INSIDE PASSAGE(ALASKA) |
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Civil Engineering Surface Transportation and Equipment *ALASKA *CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT *CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS *MILITARY ENGINEERING *ROADS AIRPORTS ARMY COAST GUARD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE SYSTEMS GLOBAL ISLANDS LANDING FIELDS MILITARY ENGINEERS MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES) MOBILITY NETWORKS OCEANS PAVEMENTS REPRINTS SECOND WORLD WAR SHORES UNITED STATES VILLAGES WARFARE ALASKA ROAD OPERATION INSIDE PASSAGE(ALASKA) Hall, Vicki D Operation Alaskan Road |
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Civil Engineering Surface Transportation and Equipment *ALASKA *CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT *CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS *MILITARY ENGINEERING *ROADS AIRPORTS ARMY COAST GUARD CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE SYSTEMS GLOBAL ISLANDS LANDING FIELDS MILITARY ENGINEERS MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES) MOBILITY NETWORKS OCEANS PAVEMENTS REPRINTS SECOND WORLD WAR SHORES UNITED STATES VILLAGES WARFARE ALASKA ROAD OPERATION INSIDE PASSAGE(ALASKA) |
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Just 15 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska, in a remote region of the Inside Passage, lies a pristine island rain forest known as Annette Island. It was founded by Anglican missionary William Duncan and 800 Tsimshian Indians in 1887, and in 1891, by Congressional Act, it became the Annette Island Reservation. In 1916, all waters and inlets within 3,000 feet of the island s shoreline were included. Today, Annette Island and its surrounding islands comprise the only Indian reservation in Alaska. Metlakatla, with 1,800 residents, is the only inhabited village on the 136-square-mile island. During World War II, a large airfield was built on the island as part of a defense network for the Canadian and American forces. After the war, the airfield became a United States Coast Guard search-and-rescue base, as well as a weather station for the United States Weather Bureau. For a brief period, the Federal Aviation Administration based personnel on-site. Until recently, it was the largest airfield in Alaska and continued to serve the area commercially until the 1970s. With the completion of the new Ketchikan Airport on Gravina Island, and the transfer of the Coast Guard Station to Sitka in 1977, Annette Field officially closed. Operation Alaskan Road is the fulfillment of a 50-year-old promise made to the Metlakatla Indian Community after World War II--by the Alaska Road Commission and the United States Army Corps of Engineers--to build a road connecting their ocean side city to Alaska s Inside Passage. This would allow year-round ferry service to Ketchikan, Alaska s fourth largest city. The economy of Metlakatla is poor because of limited mobility to jobs and trade centers in Ketchikan, and the unemployment rate hovers near 80 percent. Published in Engineer, p47-50, 2008. |
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