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In Alaska 3-year-old boys are encouraged to smoke a pipe.
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Alaska's second-largest city, Fairbanks, has the widest temperature spread of any city on earth, from -66F to 99F.
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Hubbard Glacier, at the head of Yakutat Bay, is the longest and fastest growing valley glacier in North America. It's been known to move as fast as 100 feet per day.
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Prudhoe Bay is the origination of the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline. The insulated pipeline pumps about 1.2 million barrels of oil a day
from the North Slope to Valdez. |
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Nome was a gold-fevered boom town in 1900. Today Nome is the finish line for the famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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Mt. McKinley, at 20,320 feet, is North America's highest peak. It is part of the Alaska Range, a chain with 23 peaks taller than 10,000 feet and 5467 sq. miles of glaciers and ice fields.
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Valdez is the southern terminus for the
800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the northernmost ice-free port in the Western
Hemisphere. |
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Sitka was a Tlingit settlement when Alexander Baranov set up a Russian fur-trading post at the site in 1799. It was the capital of Alaska until 1906. Looming above is Mt. Edgecumbe, a graceful 3200-foot extinct volcano often likened to Japan's Mt. Fuji.
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Barrow, located on the Beaufort Sea, is the northernmost settlement in the United States and has 82 days between May and August when the sun never drops below the horizon.
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Kodiak was the capital of czarist Alaska
until 1804. Today it is home to the nation's largest fishing fleet. Kodiak Island
is populated by more than 3000 bears and is the second-largest island in the United
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