Middleton Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located in the Pacific Ocean approximately 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Cordova.[1] Most of the acreage on the island is owned by Chugach Alaska Corporation, a for-profit corporation. The island is also home of the unattended 200-acre (81 ha) Middleton Island Airport and NEXRAD weather radar (FAA), and the privately owned 182-acre (74 ha) Middleton Island Marine Biological Station with researchers resident year-round.[2][3][4][5]
A World War II-era American transport ship beached on the island in 1942 where the wreck is still intact. The island was briefly home to Middleton Island Air Force Station, an early warning radar station, from 1958 until the station's closure in 1963.[6][7] During the 1964 Alaska earthquake the island rose an additional 12 feet (3.7 m) above sea level expanding its acreage by about 45%.[8]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Middleton Island
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Middleton Island (airport).
- ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for MDO PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 25, 2011.
- ^ "WSR-88D Radar List (156 sites)" (PDF). National Weather Service. June 27, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
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- ^ "Information for Middleton Island AFS, AK". Radomes, Inc. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ "U.S.S. Coldbrook-Middleton Island". National Geographic Society. March 7, 2010. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2016.