Alaska Panhandle

The Alaska Panhandle is a narrow strip of rugged coast dotted with islands over 500 kilometres in length, stretching from where the Alaska, British Columbia and Yukon borders meet almost halfway south along the coast of the Pacific Ocean to the start of the British Columbia coast. The north-central portion of the Alaska Panhandle is the location of Gastineau Regional Municipality, the upper-tier municipality of which Juneau, the provincial capital of Alaska, is administrative seat and most populous lower-tier municipality.