Talk:Douglas Harbor

Latest comment: 3 years ago by AanDuxas'Át

This page is so off.

First of all, the Inuit are about 600 miles north of Douglas Harbor. Southeast Alaska is Tlingit and Haida lands. Its not a natural harbor - it was created by building a causeway to Mayfair Island - so it doesn't have a native name.

Ships sink frequently at Douglas Harbor, not every year, but multiple times over the course of 5 years (they tend to sink in knots of 2 or 3 at a time). It gets winds of over 100 mph at least once and usually several times each winter, and quite frequently has a steady blow in winter of 40-50 mph.

The 7.1M in bonds allocated to the Harbors was for ameliorating 20 years worth of deferred maintenance accrued across the Borough's collection of harbors - Douglas, Harris, Aurora, and Statter.

I won't bother to fix this, since I know any changes I make will get reversed by some bleeping anointed editor who has seen tv shows on Alaska and so, of course, knows better.

Jess Wundring (talk) 06:45, 13 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

I've seen early 19C census records for a Douglas, Alaska in an entirely different census district-- one that made sense with Inuit names See citation at bottom here. I will try to find the source again. Until then, I'm leaving the article un-edited. AanDuxas'Át (talk) 05:48, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Also, while the harbor has been extensively modified over the last century, that same location was used as a harbor before the stone causeway was constructed-- both by the Tlingit and by early residents of the towns of Douglas & Treadwell (you can see an elevated pier but no breakwater in early photos (c.1912). The harbor & adjacent winter village are called Anax̱ Yaa Andagan Yé in Tlingit. AanDuxas'Át (talk) 07:26, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply