Land named for colorful character ‘Herring Pete’ added to Alaska’s Kachemak Bay State Park

By: Yereth Rosen

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: May 26, 2026

Words: 616

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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A century ago, a Norwegian-born mariner nicknamed “Herring Pete” and his Austrian-born wife operated a fox farm on a scenic, remote and mountainous Kenai Peninsula island.

Now that 24-acre island parcel is part of 400,000-acre Kachemak Bay State Park.

The Conservation Fund, a private nonprofit that protects vulnerable lands and habitat, has purchased the site on Nuka Island known as Herring Pete’s Cove and donated it to the state.

Nuka Island, which comprises …

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