| Much of the use of Admiralty Island National Monument takes place in the several major bays and inlets which penetrate deeply inland. They offer safe places to anchor and hike the adjacent beaches or estuaries while hunting, beach combing or photographing wildlife. Sitka black-tailed deer are numerous, especially during winter and spring, along these beach fringes. The largest inlet, Seymour Canal, contains some of the highest densities of nesting bald eagles anywhere in the world.Admiralty Island National Monument has high densities of Alaskan Brown Bear which travel throughout the different drainages, and visitors would be wise to take proper precautions. Seymour Canal and other bays such as Mitchell, Hood, Chaik, Whitewater, Pybus and Gambier contain marine mammals such as harbor seals and porpoises, sea lions and occasionally humpback whales. Waterfowl and seabirds over winter in these bays in abundance and many of the tributary streams have strong runs of salmon in the late summer and fall. |
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