Icebergs dot the water nearby. Foamy oil sludge washes up on shore at Naked Island in central Prince William Sound. A hand drips with oil that has washed on to Smith Island. Oil swirls through Snug Harbor at Knight Island. A journalist picks his way along the high-tide line marked by oil near Discovery Point on Knight Island in Prince William Sound.
Oil steaks across Herring Bay with the peaks of Knight Island in the background.
The slow migration of the crude oil from the Exxon Valdez spill continues to spread across Prince William Sound. ERA helicopter pilot John Kennebec looks over an oil-soaked beach on the north shore of Eleanor Island in Prince William Sound. Make the Anchorage Daily News your source for Alaska and Anchorage history. All components of this site are copyright 1989-1999 by the Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska unless otherwise noted. Unauthorized reproduction or use of any material available from this site is strictly prohibited.