- Noatak Wilderness
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Noatak Wilderness IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)
Location Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, USA Coordinates 68°03′54″N 159°33′07″W / 68.065°N 159.55194°WCoordinates: 68°03′54″N 159°33′07″W / 68.065°N 159.55194°W Area 5,765,427 acres (2,333,186 ha) Established 1980 Governing body National Park Service The Noatak Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Noatak National Preserve. Together with neighboring Gates of the Arctic Wilderness, Noatak National Preserve, more than 6.5 million acres (2,600,000 ha), protects almost the entirety of the largest untouched river basin in America, that of the Noatak River. All of the preserve, except for about 700,000 acres (280,000 ha) east of the village of Noatak, has been designated Wilderness. The wilderness is the fourth-largest in the United States, following the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness, the Mollie Beattie Wilderness, and the Gates of the Arctic Wilderness.
References
Protected Areas of Alaska Federal Admiralty Island • Aniakchak • Cape Krusenstern • Misty Fjords • World War II Valor in the Pacific
Alaska Maritime • Alaska Peninsula • Arctic • Becharof • Innoko • Izembek • Kanuti • Kenai • Kodiak • Koyukuk • Nowitna • Saint Lazaria • Selawik • Tetlin • Togiak • Yukon Delta • Yukon Flats
Aleutian Islands • Andreafsky • Becharof • Bering Sea • Bogoslof • Chamisso • Chuck River • Coronation Island • Denali • Endicott River • Forrester Island • Gates of the Artic • Glacier Bay • Hazy Islands • Innoko • Izembek • Karta River • Katmai • Kenai • Kobuk Valley • Kootznoowoo • Koyukuk • Kuiu • Lake Clark • Maurille Islands • Misty Fjords • Mollie Beattie • Noatak • Nunivak • Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck • Pleasant/Lemusurier/Inian Islands • Russell Fjord • Saint Lazaria • Selawik • Semidi • Simeonof • South Baranof • South Etolin • South Prince of Wales • Stikine-LeConte • Tebenkof Bay • Togiak • Tracy Arm-Fords Terror • Tuxedni • Unimak • Warren Island • West Chichagof-Yakobi • Wrangell-Saint Elias
Steese National Conservation AreaState Afognak Island State Park • Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve • Baranof Castle Hill State Historic Site • Birch Lake State Recreation Site • Chena River State Recreation Area • Chena River State Recreation Site • Chugach State Park • Deep Creek State Recreation Area • Denali State Park • Kachemak Bay State Park • Wood-Tikchik State Park
Haines • Tanana Valley
Categories:- IUCN Category Ib
- Protected areas of North Slope Borough, Alaska
- Protected areas of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
- Wilderness Areas of Alaska
- Protected areas of the Arctic
- Northern Alaska geography stubs
- Alaska geography stubs
- Western United States protected area stubs
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