Prince WIlliam Sound
This area offers you a chance to see Dall sheep, mountain goats, sea lions, sea otters, whales, seals and bald eagles, as well as the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Terminal in Valdez. The sound is also home to more than 100,000 glaciers, including breathtaking Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, which is more than 40 miles long and more than 200 feet high at the face.

Montague and Hinchinbrook are its largest islands. The area is a fishing, mining, and oil shipment center. In March 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground here, spilling more than 42 million litres/11 million gallons of crude oil in one of the world’s greatest oil-pollution disasters. Commercial fishing, birds, sea mammals, and hundreds of miles of shoreline were devastated. Their numbers have since been restored and Prince William Sound is now home to over 70 year round humpbacks.