Talk:Douglas Harbor

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]