Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
North to Alaska
Adventure
From the first humans to cross the Bering
Land Bridge to those who came after, all had a daring, can-do spirit. From explorers to gold miners to teachers to
farmers, each of these fearless folks shaped
Alaska and you can still see their impact today.
A few special things about Alaska…
But Anchorage is the largest city.
Tulsa has about 100,000 more people than Anchorage.
Juneau is the Capital
Tallest Mountain in NA – Over 20,000 feet
20,000 feet
Biggest Quake – Good Friday 1964 9.2 on Richter scale
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is more than 13 million square miles, six times bigger than Yellowstone.
Coldest of Cold
The coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States was in Alaska. On January 23, 1971, the temperature dropped to -79.8 at Prospect Creek. That's only one degree warmer than the coldest temperature ever in North America. On February 3, 1947, the thermometer at Snag in the Yukon hit -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest temperature recorded in the world is -129F at Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Juneau, Alaska is the cloudiest place in the U.S.
Anchorage tied Hilo, Hawaii for the #2 spot at 41%.
Wind
In Alaska you'll find the windiest places and the least windy. Talkeetna ties Medford, Oregon for the lowest annual wind speed of 4.8 mph.
Yakutat, Alaska holds the record for the rainiest place in the United States. It averages more than 160 inches each year.
The Eagles have landed.
Some 4,000 eagles come to the Chilkat River near Haines in November to feed on a late run of salmon there.
Most active volcanoes in U.S.
80% of all active volcanoes and 10% of all the volcanoes in the world are located in Alaska.
Largest state park in the United States: Wood-Tikchik State Park in southwestern Alaska is 1.6 million acres.
Willow ptarmigan
Sport: Dog Mushing
Forget-Me-Not
King Salmon
Big Dipper
Designed by Benny Benson who won a state-wide contest in 1926. The Big Dipper and the North Star—eight stars of gold-- stand for the sky and the state flower.
Glaciers
Greatest concentration of
glaciers in the US: Nearly 30,000
square miles or 5% of the state is
covered by glaciers.
