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Major Landforms
Some major landforms include Mount McKinley, the Kenai Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands and part of the Rocky Mountains. The geographical regions that cover Alaska include the Alaska Mountain Range, the Inside Passage, the Arctic Coastal Plain, the North Slope and the Brooks Mountain Range. -
The Largest Island
The largest island in Alaska is Kodiak. It is located in the Gulf of Alaska. The first Russian to step foot on the island was Stephen Glotov. The city of Kodiak was established in 1940. -
Kuskokwim River
The second longest river in Alaska with the length of 702 miles. It starts in Kuskokwim mountains that flows southwest to the Bering sea. Its name is Yupik, meaning big slow moving thing. -
Hawadax Island
Formally known a rat Island, located in the western Aleutian Island. Renamed Howadax in 2012. Its 9.3 miles long and 3.1 miles wide. The island has no residence. The name of Rat Island was given by Captain Litke in 1827 -
Colville River
The Colville River is a major river of the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska in the United States, approximately 350 miles. One of the northernmost major rivers in North America, it drains a remote area of tundra on the north side of the Brooks Range entirely above the Arctic Circle The river is frozen for more than half the year and floods each spring. -
MT. Denali
Denali is also known as Mount McKinley. It is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.This mountain is located in the Alaska Range in the interior of Alaska. Denali is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. -
Iliamna
The largest lake in Alaska, located in Southern Alaska on the Alaska Peninsula. 80 miles long and 20 miles wide. The name was said to come from a mythical great black fish, supposed to reside in the lake. The fish was reported to bite holes into the bottoms of natives kayaks -
Noatac River
The river is 425 miles long, 7 miles north of Kotzebue. It was first named Inland River by John Simpson in 1853. In 1980 330 miles of the river became part of the National Wild and Scenic River System. -
the Porcupine River
The vast majority begins in the interior Canada in the Ogilvie mountains and travels 300 miles of Canadian waterway and 200 miles of Alaskan waterway. it joins the Yukon river at Fort Yukon. The name comes from the porcupine caribou herd that spends the winter months in the forested regions Athabaskan native groups live in and around old crow and has been a trading route for centuries -
The Purchase of Alaska
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million. The treaty was signed by Secretary of State William Seward. Many people called the purchase "Seward's Folly". -
Stikine River
The Stikine River is approximately 379 miles long. It is located in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and in southeast Alaska in the United States. The mouth of the river begins near Wrangell. To this day the river continues to carve its channel through glacial valleys and delta flats. -
The Inside Passage
The Inside Passage is a coastal route for oceangoing vessels along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific coast of North America The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships, freighters, tugs with tows, fishing craft and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway, BC Ferries and Washington state ferries.The Alaskan portion of the Inside Passage extends 500 miles from north to south and 100 miles from east to west. The area encompasses 1,000 islands. -
The First Organic Act
This act was created to give Alaska a form of government. It also brought forth the attention of mining claims that were open and the land rights of the Alaska Natives. -
Yukon River
The Yukon River is a major river of northwestern north America. The lower half of the river lies in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is 3,190 1,980 mi long and empties into the Bering Sea. In 1896-1903 the river was a major use of transportation. -
The Klondike Gold rush
Gold was a huge hit arond 1897 to 1898. People from all over the world came to mine gold. It took them about a year to reach the Klondike Many were not successful. -
Office Surveyor General
This person makes it possible to tell who owned what lands and staked claims. you could also buy and sell land -
1898 Oil
The pipe line is a huge part of Alaskan history .The first good oil drill was in 1898. We use oil for trading and much more. -
The Richardson Highway
The Richardson Highway was Alaska’s first road, known to gold seekers in 1898 as the Valdez to Eagle trail. Gold stampeders started up the trail again in 1902, this time headed for Fairbanks, site of a big gold strike. The Valdez to Fairbanks trail became an important route to the Interior, and in 1910 the trail was upgraded to a wagon road under the direction of Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, first president of the Alaska Road Commission. -
Homer Spit
Located in Homer on the Southern tip of the Kenai peninsula. The spit is 4.5 mile long piece of land jutting out into cache Mack Bay. -
Extension of Homestead Laws in Alaska
this law authorized individuals to stake claims to unreserved federal land. -
Studying Landforms
By the year 1900, people had traced all the major rivers and mountains and had them documented. In order to get information they use satilites, GIS map and cartographers. -
Makushian Volcano
The volcano is an ice covered stratovolcano located on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands. Its has an elevation of 2,036 meters its summit is the highest point on the Island. -
Civil Code for Alaska
Congress started to discuss what shall be a criminal offense and should not congress on June 6th, 1900. They created a civil code for Alaska that almost completely revised the first organic act of 1884. -
Alaska Road Commission
This commission was a great deal for Alaskans because it was the construction and improvement of many Alaskan highways. -
Copper Mining
During the year 1900 about 200 miles away from the gulf of Alaska, people found lots of copper on a cliff. Gold and silver were found as well. In 1911 they started mining the prices for copper exceeded gold. They got $29 million in copper. and only $19 million in gold that summer -
Mount Katnai Volcano
The height is 6716 FT. Last eruption was on June 1911. it a large Stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula in Southern Alaska located within Katmai National Park and Preserve. Its most recent activity was May 193. -
Novarupta(newly erupted)
This volcano was created in 1912. It is located on the Alaskan peninsula in Katmai national park and preserve about 290 miles southwest of anchorage. -
The Alaska Railroad
During the gold rush, the rail road helped transport copper and other resources. The railroad went from seward to fairbanks. -
Brooks Range
The Brooks Range is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some 700 miles from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory.The range was named by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1925 after Alfred Hulse Brooks, chief USGS geologist for Alaska from 1903 to 1924 -
Colony Farming
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered 203 families to start fresh in a new land, in a fertile Alaskan valley with the name Matanuska. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were chosen to be part of the project because it was felt they most closely resembled the climate in Alaska -
The Harding Ice fields
The Ice Fields are between the Bear and Skilak Glaciers, they are 300 square miles. They reside on the Kenai Peninsula. The Harding Ice Fields were named after President Warren Harding. It was first crossed in 1940 by smith and Risen, two Kenai residents -
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Alkan highway
in 1930 they started to plan on building the road but they didnt actually start untill a few year later.in septembe of 1942 the had finished the southen half of the road. takeing only 8.5 monthest build the road they finised it on 1943 all the solides tht built it were very happy. -
Kiska Island
located in the Aleutian, far west of Alaska.It is topped with the Kiska volcano. On June 7, 1942 4,200 Japanese invaded and overtook the island, two weeks later the U.S. bombed the island. A few ships and submarines were destroyed, with 100s of soldiers dying. All the Japenese departed on Jul 28 1943. -
Swanson River Oil Field
the swanson river oil field is located in cook inlet, alaska. the originlal oil of this field is 435 million stock tank barrels. this oil was a very unsaturated discovery in 1957. -
tsumani
1958 the latuya bay megatsuami occire on july 9 ay 22:15:58 fallowing a earthquake magamatue of 7.8. and maxium mercalli intencity of XI. -
Good Friday Tsunami
During the evening of March 27, 1964 (good Friday!), the area of Prince William Sound, in Southeastern Alaskawas struck by a moment magnitude 9.2 earthquake.In addition to the tectonic tsunami, the violent shaking during the earthquake caused many large landslides. damage from the 1964 tsunami was greatest along the southeastern coast of Alaska. Many of the coastal communities along Prince William Sound and Kodiak Island were completely wiped out. -
1964 earthquake
the earthquake shook the streets of anchorage, Seward, Valdez, and homer. this earthquake was a 9.2 magnitude and lasted for 4 minutes. the Alaskan pipeline at the time nearly burst because it was only made to with stand up to 8.4 magnitude. this is said to be the biggest earthquake to ever hit Alaska. -
Fairbanks Flood
This flooding of tanana river chena river out the towns of fairbanks and nenana almost completly under water. causing ots of homes to be water damaged. -
Exit Glacier
This glacier is located in the Kenai Fjords National Park. It was discovered in 1968 by a group of mountaineering people. Wildlife such as black bears, marmots and goats can be found in in the area near the glacier. -
Trans Alaska pipeline
They first started building the pipeline in 1973. When the oil crisis made exploration of Prudhoe Bay Oilfeild economically feasible. This pipe line helped a ton today and back then for transporting oil. -
Lake Clark National Park and preserve
Located in Port Allswrth, was first proclaimed a national monument in 1978 and then a national park and preserve in 1980. There are two volcanoes in the park and preserve. these consist of MT. Redoubt and MT. Illiamna. -
MT. Saint Elias
Mount Saint Elias is the second highest mountain in both Canada and the United States, being situated on the Yukon and Alaska border.The U.S. side of the mountain is located within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Elevation: 5489 m (18,008 ft) -
Exxon Oil Spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef at 12:04 am local time and spilled 11 to 38 million US gallons of crude oil.over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. -
biggest cave
El Captian cave is one of the largest caves in alaska. this cave is not only the largest but the first cave to have fossils in it. in 1992 theyflagged it. it 1990 the found bear bones in it. this cave also floods when there is a storm.the cave faces south across the shallow el captain passage, providing a nice view of kosciusko island. -
Mt. Redoubt
Captain James Cook saw Mt. Redoubt during the summer of 1778. the russian name is Sopka Redutskaya. 890,000 years old. -
Kennicott glacier
this glacier extends south 43km from mountain blackburn to its terminus at the head of the kennecott river in the wrangell mountains. -
hurricane in alaska
in the past ther has been one storm (19750 remnants of a hurrricane hit alaska from the centril pacific.) They called this hurricane oho. it hit a few miles south of hawaii. -
Pipeline
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) includes the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. It is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, (or the pipeline as referred to in Alaska), but those terms technically apply only to the 800 miles (1,287 km) of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches (12.2 meters.) -
LNG Project
The Alaska LNG project would be among the world’s largest natural gas development projects. And the single largest component the gas liquefaction plant and marine terminal would be built in Nikiski, on the Kenai Peninsula.The project sponsors are North Slope producers ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP. The companies estimate the cost at $45 billion to $65 billion. First production at the LNG plant could come in 2025.
