The Duncan Canal is a naturally occurring inland

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in the

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. It deeply penetrates

Kupreanof Island Kupreanof Island (russian: Остров Купреянова) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska. The island is long and wide with a total land area is , making it the 13th largest island in the United States and t ...

, separating the

Lindenberg Peninsula The Lindenberg Peninsula is a peninsula on the eastern coast of Kupreanof Island, Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska, U.S.A. It is separated from the main portion of the island by the Duncan Canal, Alaska, Duncan Canal. The peninsula w ...

, on the southeast side of the island from the main island. It was first charted in 1793 by James Johnstone, one of

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's officers during his 1791-95 expedition. It was named after the English missionary William Duncan. The Duncan Canal Portage is a popular hiking trail across the northern end of the Lindenberg Peninsula. It originally provided access to the northern end of the Duncan Canal directly from

Frederick Sound Frederick Sound (also called Prince Frederick Sound or Prince Frederick's Sound) is a passage of water in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska that separates Kupreanof Island to the south from Admiralty Island in the north. Frederick So ...

. Butterworth Island is located at the mouth of the Duncan Canal where it debouches into the Sumner Strait past the larger

Woewodski Island Woewodski Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, United States. It is separated from Kupreanof Island to the west by Duncan Canal, and Mitkof Island to the east by the Wrangell Narrows. It is named after Captain Lieu ...

References

External links

Wright, Fred Eugene and Wright, Charles Will (1908) "Duncan Canal" ''The Ketchikan and Wrangell Mining Districts, Alaska'' Bulletin 347, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., pp. 140-142

Karl, Susan M.; Haeussler, Peter J. and McCafferty, Anne (1999) "Reconnaissance Geologic Map of the Duncan Canal-Zarembo Island Area, Southeastern Alaska"
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99–168.

text and pictures of radio installation at Indian Point, Duncan Canal, from

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"Duncan Canal Volcano Satellite Images - ASTER Volcano Archive" NASA

"Duncan Canal Webcam"
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