The Coastal South

The south coast region is the most maritime part of the mainland, as opposed to the island chain that makes up southwestern Alaska or the archipelago of the southeast. Of the five stations with long records in this part of Alaska, Kodiak is located on an exposed island, Seward and Valdez are on tidewater in somewhat protected fjords, and Cordova and Yakutat are on glacial outwash plains directly exposed to the Gulf of Alaska. (http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/history/South.html)