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Port Walter is located on the southeastern side of Baranof Island in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska. It is made up of two parts: Little Port Walter and Big Port Walter. Little Port Walter was the home of a herring saltery during the turn on the century and the ruins can still be seen. Little Port Walter had a small community at one time but has been replaced by a research station that studies the life cycles of several species of Salmon. There is a staff of 3–15 state and federal employees running the research station year-round. There is a dock, and the harbor itself is a safe anchorage. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = United States of America, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Fisheries Science Center )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = United States of America, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Fisheries Science Center )〕 Little Port Walter receives an average annual precipitation of over 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Alaska Climate Research Center, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = United States of America, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service )〕 and as such is the wettest permanent settlement in the United States and among the wettest in the world with lengthy climate records. As many as seventy-eight days per year see over of rain and/or snowfall per year,〔(General Precipitation Tables for Little Port Walter )〕 while in October 1974 of rain fell and in January 1985 . The record daily rainfall was on 6 December 1964. The driest month was February 1989 with , while the hottest day on record was 12 August 1990 with and the coldest 19 January 1981 with overnight. The heaviest snowfall in a month was in December 2001. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Port Walter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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