Alaska
About Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state located in the northwestern regions of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and, longitudinally, the easternmost state in the United States. It is a semi-exclave of the U.S., bordering the Canadian territory of Yukon and the province of British Columbia to the east. It shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and is closer to another continent (Asia) than any other U.S. state. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
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Alaska is the most northerly, westerly and easterly US state, because the Aleutian Islands stretch across the international date line.
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More facts about Alaska
In Whittier, Alaska, the entire town of about 200 people lives in one building.
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Japan actually occupied a little bit of Alaska during the Second World War.
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There is a town called North Pole in Alaska, where a local politician legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2005.
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In Alaska it is completely illegal to wake a hibernating bear for a photo, but it is OK to hunt them.
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In Alaska you are also not allowed to push a moose out of an aeroplane.
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The Iditarod is based on an event that happened in 1925 called the Great Race of Mercy.
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I went panning for gold in Alaska near Juneau, but I only found the chocolate gold nuggets they deliberately put in for tourists.
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My favourite musher is John Suter, who thought everyone was doing it wrong with huskies, so he ran the Iditarod with poodles.
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Coordinates: 64.0000, -152.0000