| Caines Head State Recreation Area | |
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| Location | Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska |
| Nearest city | Seward, Alaska |
| Coordinates | 60°0′3.6″N 149°25′19.2″W / 60.001000°N 149.422000°W |
| Area | 6,571 acres (26.59 km2)[1] |
| Created | May, 1971[1] |
| dnr.alaska.gov | |
Caines Head State Recreation Area is a 6,571-acre (26.59 km2)[1] recreational area encompassing the Caines Head cape in Resurrection Bay, Alaska. The area is located in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, 7 miles (11 km) south of the city of Seward.[1] A popular tourist destination,[2] Caines Head features spruce and hemlock forests[3] as well as a variety of terrestrial and marine wildlife (including harbor seals, Steller sea lions, sea otters, orcas, humpback, grey and fin whales, brown and black bears, lynx, mountain goats, wolves, etc.).[4] It also features the remains of Fort McGilvray, a World War II-era fortification erected in 1941–1942 to defend against the potential invasion of the Imperial Japanese Army.[5]
- ^ a b c d Sinclair 1997, p. 3.
- ^ DeVaughn 2011, p. 210.
- ^ Sinclair 1997, p. 8.
- ^ Sinclair 1997, p. 9.
- ^ Sinclair 2008, pp. 377–379.