Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Kodiak Island
Alaska's largest island and America's second-largest; famous for Kodiak brown bears, king crab fisheries, and a major Coast Guard base.
- Formation
- glaciated mountainous island; tectonic uplift along the Aleutian subduction zone
- Population
- 13,101
- Water
- Pacific Ocean
- Access
- moderate
Every required movement
The passage
to Kodiak Island.
Daily jet service to Kodiak Airport plus Alaska Marine Highway ferries from Homer.
- 01Kodiak Airport (ADQ)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Alaska Marine Highway ferry Kodiak-Homer (M/V Tustumena, M/V Kennicott); floatplanes to villages.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
US entry rules; no special permit needed.
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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What the chart cannot hold
What becomes visible when you follow kodiak brown bears beyond the familiar map?
Rugged, bear-rich island in the Gulf of Alaska, settled by Alutiiq peoples for millennia and the site of Russia's first permanent North American settlement (Three Saints Bay, 1784). Devastated by the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and tsunami, it rebuilt around commercial fishing.
Alutiiq homeland; first Russian settlement in North America (1784); sold to the US with Alaska in 1867; WWII naval base; 1964 quake; Exxon Valdez (1989) affected waters.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 57.47° N · 153.43° W
- Sovereignty
- United States · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Alaska Peninsula (~50 km across Shelikof Strait)
- Best recorded window
- June-September (bear viewing, fishing).
- Permits / entry
- US entry rules; no special permit needed.
- Languages
- English, Alutiiq
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