Gravina Island

The Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Islands group in 1792.

Its high cost, combined with the island's low population, resulted in critics calling it the bridge to nowhere.

The Ketchikan Borough Assembly turned the proposal down when the administration of Governor Tony Knowles also expressed its disfavor to the idea.

While the federal earmark was withdrawn after meeting opposition from Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, though the state of Alaska received $300 million in transportation funding,[8] the state of Alaska continued to study improvements in access to the airport, which could conceivably include improvements to the ferry service.

[9] Despite the demise of the bridge proposal, Governor Sarah Palin spent $26 million in transportation funding for the planned access road on Gravina Island that ultimately had little use.