Alaska

Oh! Alaska Hello and welcome to Alaska. If you enjoy skiing, snowboarding, or even baseball, you can do it all in Alaska. Take a ride in the sky with a plane. Or you can go to Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Even if you hate the cold, you can still come to Alaska. In the summer a warm temperature of 70 degrees lasts all season round. Experience the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights. Enjoy the climate, sights, and activities when you visit Alaska, The Last Frontier.

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[|Mt. McKinley]

[|The Iditarod]

[|Official Alaska website]

[|Famous people from Alaska]

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"Land of the Midnight Sun", and "Seward's Icebox" gas industries in Alaska measuring a 9.2 on the Richter scale media type="custom" key="8655180" align="right" Anchorage to Nome in all of Alaska, which is about 200,000 people
 * Alaska's nicknames are "The Last Frontier",
 * Juneau is the capital
 * The state bird is the Willow Ptarmigan
 * The state flower is the wild native Forget-Me-Not
 * The state insect is the Four-Spot Skimmer dragonfly
 * The state fish is the King Salmon
 * The state mammal is the Moose
 * The state tree is the Sitka Spruce
 * It is offensive to push a Moose out of a plane
 * It is illegal to look at a moose from a plane
 * 1 out of every 58 people in Alaska is a pilot
 * About 80% of the state income comes from the oil and
 * The Good Friday earthquake happened March 27, 1964
 * Alaska is home to the Iditarod, which goes from
 * The city of Anchorage has the biggest population

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__Citations__
 * Britannica Discover America; Alaska, The Last Frontier/ pages 3-30
 * America the Beautiful; Alaska/Tamra B. Orr/ pages 8-136
 * 50 states.com/Alaska.htm
 * Netstate.com/states/alma./ak_alma.htm
 * Enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/Alaska