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United States Coast Pilot®
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The United States Coast Pilot® consists of a series of nautical books that cover a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes. Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart.

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Coast Pilot 8 - 31ed Edition, 2009
Coast Pilot 8 covers the panhandle section of Alaska between the south boundary and Cape Spencer. In this volume, general ocean coastline is only 250 nautical miles, but tidal shoreline totals 11,085 miles.
 
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Coast Pilot 8

Chapter Description
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Front Pages Title page, Preface, Graphic Index, and Table of Contents
Chapter 1 General Information [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 2 Navigation Regulations [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 3 Alaska-Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 4 Dixon Entrance to Ketchikan [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 5 Clarence Strait, Dixon Entrance to Wrangell [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 6 West Coast of Prince of Wales Island [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 7 Sumner Strait [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 8 Frederick Sound [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 9 Stephens Passage [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 10 Chatham Strait [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 11 Lynn Canal [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 12 West Coast of Baranof Island [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 13 Salisbury Sound and Peril Strait [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 14 West Coast of Chichagof Island and Yakobi Island [XML] [HTML]
Chapter 15 Cross Sound and Icy Strait [XML] [HTML]
Appendix A
Appendix B Distances, Meteorological and Climatological Data
Appendix C Marine Protected Areas
Index
   
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