Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

The Kodiak Archipelago is an archipelago south of the main land-mass of the state of Alaska, about 405 km by air south-west of Anchorage in the Gulf of Alaska. The largest island in the archipelago is Kodiak Island, the second-largest island in the United States. The archipelago has a length of about 285 km and a width of about 108 km, from the Barren Islands on the north to Chirikof Island and the Semidi Islands group on the south. The archipelago contains 13,890 km² of land. The Kodiak Archipelago contains about 40 small glaciers, numerous streams and many species of land and marine animals. Much of its land is forested. ()