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[QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 1790975, member: 230"]
Icy Straight is unusual.  It is at least 3 miles wide and about 20 miles long.  It connects directly with the outside waters via Inian Pass to Cross Sound.  Due to the surrounding mountains one would expect the Straight to be very deep but it is actually shallow, only about 150 feet deep due to the silt and sand runoff from Glacier Bay.  The bottom is flat and sandy.  Point Adolphus, on the opposite shore from Glacier Bay,  has one of the world's largest concentration of feeding humback whales.  There are no significant settlements on its shores; just the Native Village of Hoonah, Gustavus with a population of 500 and a company cannery town owned by bumble Bee which is called XIP.  XIP is notable because its main street also serves as its runway.  There is no tower.  When a plane wants to land it circles, people clear the street, and the plane lands.  There are several landings a day during the summer.  It is vacant during the winter.  In WWII it was a prisoner of War camp, with no need for fences due to the resident brown bear population.  Most of the world's record halibut come from Icy Straight.
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