TRANSLATE 9. Today at the Glenn Highway we reach Valdez in the northeast of the Prince William Sound. Valdez is acquainted for her beautiful position and the cruises to the Prince Williams Sound. Also in Valdez finds the embark station of the alaska pipeline. The pipeline reaches from the Prudhoe Bay at north to Valdez. The pipeline, financed private, have a lenght of 800 miles and is the most expensive project in the history of northamerica by charges of 8 mrd. dollar. At 24. March 1989 caused by the supertanker "Exxon Valdez" the ultralargest oil spill at the northamerican waters.

We make a cruise through the Prince Williams Sound to the Columbia Glacier. The Columbia Glacier is one of the largest and most impressing tide glacier with an area of 700 squaremiles and a lenght of 40 miles.

move on:    1. Anchorage   2. Katmai N.P.   3. Homer    4. Seward  5. Denali N.P.   6. Dawson City    7. Whitehorse    8. Kluane N.P.   9. Valdez