Raspberry Island
Raspberry Island is a Kodiak Archipelago island located in the Gulf of Alaska. This Island is located only two miles northwest of Whale Island and across the mile-wide Raspberry Strait from Afognak’s southwestern end. The Raspberry Islands is considered part of the Kodiak Island Borough’s Alaneva census-designated place.
This Island’s permanent residents are at Raspberry Island Remote Lodge and Port Wakefield. Raspberry Island’s power is provided by hydropower in the nearby creeks. Kodiak, Alaska, is the nearest town to the Island, and it only takes a thirty-minute float plane ride or an hour-and-a-half boat ride to get there.
Wildlife and Environment
Notoriously wildlife on the Island includes Sitka deer, Kodiak bears, and red foxes, but Raspberry Island is also home to bald eagles and tufted puffins. Papberry Island -along Afogna island- is the only location with elk populations in Alaska. Raspberry Island’s Roosevelt Elk developed from calves translocated in 1928 from Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. The muskrat is another specie that was successfully introduced to Raspberry Island. You can find whales commonly meandering down the Raspberry Strait but they turn around because it becomes t shallow for them to pass through. One of the Island’s most dominant trees is the Sitka Spruce, which is interrupted by alders, wildflowers, and salmonberry bushes.