Editing Nanwalek, Alaska (section)

==Geography==
Nanwalek and [[Port Graham, Alaska|Port Graham]] are located near the southern tip of the [[Kenai Peninsula]] and are separated by less than {{convert|5|mi|0}}. Both villages are accessible only by air or water (they lie {{convert|23|mi}} southwest of [[Homer, Alaska|Homer]]). The [[Alaska Marine Highway System]] provides service to nearby [[Seldovia, Alaska|Seldovia]] (located only {{convert|10|mi|km}} up the coast line). A state-owned {{convert|1850|by|50|ft|m|adj=on}} gravel airstrip sits atop a natural spit which divides the small lagoon from the southern mouth of [[Cook Inlet]]. Looking northwest across Cook Inlet, one can see [[Mount Iliamna]] {{convert|60|mi}} away and further to the north [[Mount Redoubt]], {{convert|80|mi}} away. Although they are in the vicinity of the village, they do not cause trouble to the villagers, since Iliamna is erupting continuously, emitting only smoke, and Redoubt is so far in the north that the ashes from its eruptions bother mostly Kenai and [[Anchorage]]. It is [[Augustine Volcano|Augustine]] (the most active volcano of the eastern Aleutian arc), {{convert|50|mi}} due west across Cook Inlet, which makes life nasty in Nanwalek, Port Graham, Seldovia and Homer when it erupts, as it most recently has done in 1986 and 2006.<ref>''Alaska's Volcanoes'', '''Alaska Geographic''', Vol. 18 (1991), no. 2, p. 73.</ref><ref name="SI">{{cite gvp
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According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|21.8|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|0.04|sqkm|order=flip|2}}, or 0.16%, are water.<ref name="Census 2010" />