N Harbor Drive, Valdez
Veldez is best known as the southern terminus for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. You can see the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline Terminal with its massive storage tanks each holding nine million barrels of oil just across the inlet from the town.
Actually, this is new Valdez. On Good Friday 1964 there was a devastating earthquake and the tsunami that followed destroyed the entire historic town. The community was rebuilt on more stable bedrock four miles to the west and flourished during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Terminal in the 1970s.
N Harbor Drive, Valdez
Veldez is best known as the southern terminus for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. You can see the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline Terminal with its massive storage tanks each holding nine million barrels of oil just across the inlet from the town.
Actually, this is new Valdez. On Good Friday 1964 there was a devastating earthquake and the tsunami that followed destroyed the entire historic town. The community was rebuilt on more stable bedrock four miles to the west and flourished during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Terminal in the 1970s.