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    Sitka

    National Historical Park Alaska

People

Hx RBH sketch

Historic sketch of the Russian Bishop's House

NPS photo

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SITK3781

Photograph of Tlingit in Sitka by E.W. Merrill.

NPS Photo: E.W. Merrill collection.

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M Etholen

Margreth Etholen

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E.W. Merrill Photograph SITK 3810

E.W. Merrill photograph of Tlingit fishing canoe.

NPS Photo: E.W. Merrill collection.

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Did You Know?

Map of Alaska and the continental United States

With 570,374 square miles, Alaska is twice the size of Texas and 1/5 the size of the rest of the United States. It stretches 2,400 miles east-to-west and 1,420 miles north-to-south.