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8 unusual facts about Kenai Peninsula


.50 Alaskan

Alaskan is a wildcat cartridge developed by Harold Johnson and Harold Fuller of the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska in the 1950s.

2006 Arctic Winter Games

Approximately 2,000 athletes, coaches, team staff and officials participated in the 2006 Arctic Winter Games on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska in the United States.

Front Sight Firearms Training Institute

In early 2004, Front Sight also acquired an extensive property on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.

Kittlitz's Murrelet

The Kittlitz's Murrelet mostly breeds and lives in the coastal areas of Alaska, both on the mainland around Prince William Sound, the Kenai Peninsula, sparsely up the west coast and along the Aleutian Islands.

Marbled Murrelet

Marbled murrelets occur in summer from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Barren islands, and Aleutian Islands south along the coast of North America to Point Sal, Santa Barbara County, in south-central California.

Rosey Fletcher

On March 5, 2006 in Soldotna, Alaska Rosey Fletcher received the honor of lighting the cauldron in the opening ceremony of the Kenai Peninsula 2006 Arctic Winter Games.

Soldotna High School

The Soldotna High School soccer team also took 4th place in Alaska's all-schools' division, the second-highest finish ever by a Kenai Peninsula high school.

Soldotna Sports Center

In the winter months, the facility is home to several central Kenai Peninsula high school hockey teams,fighting competitions and the soldotna figure skating team.while in the summer the facility hosts numerous local home builders, sports recreation and trading, car, and snowmachine shows, among other events.


2007 Caribou Hills fire

In addition to the dry grass in the area, the Kenai Peninsula was still recovering from an infestation of spruce bark beetles that had killed thousands of acres of trees during the late 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in an enormous "tinder box" in the largely unpopulated area of Caribou Hills.

Betula neoalaskana

Its range covers most of interior Alaska, and extends from the southern Brooks Range to the Chugach Range in Alaska, including the Turnagain Arm and northern half of the Kenai Peninsula, easterward from Norton Sound into western Ontario, and north to Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut.


see also

Kalifornsky

Kalifornsky, Alaska, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough