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Alaska, North America’s winter wonderland.
By Mark on February 1, 2009
This post is about the 49th and largest state of U.S.A, Alaska. Now in my eyes being British I feel that the Americans are very lucky having a state like Alaska, as it is probably one of the only places around today where you still have original Inuit’s living there and some of them still live in Iglu’s or Igloo’s and continue fishing just to get food like their ancestors, now I know that their are only a few left, but it is just so good of America to let theses people continue to live the lives they are used to living, plus the American government will always be there if they need assistance. Also this year will be the 50th anniversary of Alaska joining the U.S.A, so expect parties and celebrations their.
Alaska is in the furthest north-western part of America, surrounded by the Artic Ocean, Bering sea and the North Pacific and is extremely close to Russia.
Juneau is the capital of Alaska, but the most populated places are Anchorage, Kenai and Fairbanks.
Alaska was first found by the Russian explorer Vitus Bering around 1741 and also explored by captain James Cook, vancouver and many other explorers.
The state of Alaska was brought from the Russians in 1867 for then a whopping $2million and then in 1896 the Gold Rush began.
To learn more about Alaska, please refer to Wikipedia link at the bottom of this post.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Alaska, U.S.A.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of the capital of Alaska, Juneau.
This is a picture of the capital of Alaska, Juneau.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
This is the National Anthem of Alaska taken from Youtube.
This is a movie video of the original Alaskan National Anthem, known as the Tlingits National Anthem.
This is a panoramio picture taken of Flattop Mountain, Anchorage, Alaska.
This is a panoramio picture of Beautiful Alaska.
This is a panoramio picture of the Old City Hall in Anchorage, Alaska.
This is a panoramio picture of the Clarion Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska.
- Learn about Alaska on wikipedia:
- Learn about Anchorage on wikipedia:
- Learn about Juneau on wikipedia:
- Learn about Tlingits on wikipedia:
- Find Alaska on Google Earth:
- Find Anchorage on Google Earth:
- Find Juneau on Google Earth:
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
12:27 pm on February 14th, 2009
Hi Mark.
I have always loved the thought of visiting Alaska. Margaret at school tried to get a free visit for teachers when I was there. Unfortunately she failed. This is such a good article but once again there are gaps where videos or pictures should be. I would like to Google this when it is complete.
2:23 am on February 28th, 2009
Thanks mum.