About
Alaska
Mt.
McKinley, in Denali National Park, is the tallest peak in North America
at 20,320 ft.
The
Area of Alaska is 586,412 Square Miles
Our
Capital Is: Juneau
Our
Largest City Is: Anchorage
Our
Motto Is: “North to
the Future”
Our Population
Is: 599,200
Our Sport
Is: Dog Mushing
Our Flower
Is: Forget-Me-Not
Our Tree
Is: Sitka Spruce
Our Bird
Is: Willow Ptarmigan
Our Fish
Is: King Salmon
Our Gem Is:
Jade
Our Mineral
is: Gold
Our Fossil
Is: Wooly Mammoth
Our Song
Lyrics: Eight
stars of gold on a field of blue - Alaska's flag. May it mean to you The
blue of the sea, the evening sky, The mountain lakes, and the flowers
nearby; The gold of the early sourdough's dreams, The precious gold of
the hills and streams; The brilliant stars in the northern sky, The "Bear"
the "Dipper" and, shining high, The great North Star with its steady light,
Over land and sea a beacon bright. Alaska's flag to Alaskans dear, The
simple flag of a last frontier.
Alaska Trivia
- Alaska extends about 1,100 miles north-to-south and about 2,000 miles
from east-to-west.
- Mt. Wrangell (14,163 ft.) is the highest active volcano in Alaska.
- The Yukon River is one of the longest on the continent, flowing across
Alaska east-to-west.
- Aniakchak Caldera is a six-mile wide, 2,000 foot deep explosive volcanic
crater.
- Columbia Glacier, a tidewater glacier, is 42 miles long and four miles
wide at it's terminus.
- Glacier Bay has 16 tidewater glaciers, 12 actively calving icebergs
into the bay.
- The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes cover 25 square miles.
- The Harding Icefield, one of four major icecaps in the U.S. covers
300 square miles.
- Hubbard Glacier is 80 miles long, one of North America's longest
glaciers.
- Iliamna Lake is the largest lake in Alaska: 75 miles long, 20 miles
across, covering 1,000 square miles.
- Iliamna Volcano is an active 10,016 foot stratovolcano.
- The Juneau Icefield is a 1,500 square mile icefield supplying 39
glaciers.
- Malaspina Glacier (1,500 square miles) is North America's largest
piedmont glacier.
- Matanuska Glacier is 27 miles long and 4 miles wide at the terminus
and 1,000 feet thick.
- Mt. McKinley includes two separate peaks; South Peak 20,320 feet
and North Peak 19,470 feet. Mt. McKinley rises 18,000 feet above the
surrounding area, greater than Mt. Everest which begins on a 14,000
foot plateau.
'Larger' National Parklands within Alaska:
| Name: (in excess of 500,000 acres) |
Size (acres)
|
| Admiralty Island National Monument-Kootznoowoo Wilderness |
955,921
|
| Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve |
600,000
|
| Bering Land Bridge National Preserve |
2,700,000
|
| Cape Krusenstern National Monument |
660,000
|
| Chugach National Forest |
5,900,000
|
| Denali National Park and Preserve |
6,000,000
|
| Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve |
8,400,000
|
| Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve |
3,300,000
|
| Katmai National Park and Preserve |
4,000,000
|
| Kenai Fjords National Park |
669,000
|
| Kobuk Valley National Park |
1,700,000
|
| Lake Clark National Park and Preserve |
4,000,000
|
| Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness |
2,142,243
|
| Noatak National Preserve |
6,500,000
|
| Steese National Conservation Area |
1,200,000
|
| Tongass National Forest |
16,500,000
|
| Tracy Arms-Ford Terror Wilderness |
653,179
|
| Trans-Alaska Pipeline Utility Corridor |
2,780,000
|
| White Mountains National Recreation Area |
1,000,000
|
| Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve |
13,000,000
|
| Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve |
2,500,000
|
|
