Click here for Alaska Books

Moose may not be viewed from an airplane.
It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane.
( A little known incident at the Talkeetna Moose Dropping Festival Perhaps )

While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a bear for the purpose of taking a photo is prohibited.

It is the state policy that emergencies are held to a minimum
and are rarely found to exist. -Sec. 44.62.270. State policy.

Alaska

FACTS

 

 

Alaska has the farthest Western, farthest Northern
and farthest Eastern points of Land in the United States.

Attu Island is beyond the International date line, putting it in the "East"

 
HOME
.
  • Organized as territory: 1912
  • Admission to Statehood: January 3, 1959
  • State Holidays:
    Alaska Day - October 18. Anniversary of the formal transfer of the Territory and the raising of the U.S. flag at Sitka in 1867.
    Seward's Day - Last Monday in March. Commemorates the signing of the treaty by which the United States bought Alaska from Russia.
  • Area: 656,425 sq. mi.,
    Land 570,374 sq. mi.,Water 86,051 sq.mi.,    Coastline 6640 mi.,
  • State Parks: http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/index.htm
  • Area Code: 907
  • Alaska Nickname: The Last Frontier
  • Origin of state's name: Based on an Aleut word "alaxsxaq" literally meaning "object toward which the action of the sea is directed" or more simply "the mainland".
  • Population: 626,932 (The first official census in 1880 showed 33,426 Alaskans, all but 430 being Natives
  • Alaska Flag:
    Alaska adopted the flag for official state use in 1959. The blue field represents the sky, the sea, and mountain lakes, as well as Alaska's wildflowers. Emblazoned on the flag are eight gold stars: seven in the constellation Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper. The eighth being the North Star, representing the northern most state.
  • Alaska's Song:
    Written by: Marie Drake     ©The University of Alaska

    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 flow'rs nearby;
    The gold of the early sourdough 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.
A Native lad chose the Dipper's stars
For Alaska's flag that there be no bars
Among our culture. Let it be known
Through years the Native's past has grown
To share life's treasures, hand in hand,
to keep Alaska our Great-Land;
We love the northern midnight sky,
the mountains, lakes and streams nearby.
The great North Star with its steady light
will guide all cultures, clear and bright,
with nature's flag to Alaskan's dear,
the simple flag of the last frontier.
(Verse 2 by Carol Beery Davis. 1986)

Famous Alaskans

  • Famous People in Alaska
    Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan met in Fairbanks on May 2, 1984
    Emperior Hirohito and President Richard Nixon met at Elmendorf AFB in 1967

  • Number of boroughs: 16
  • Largest borough by population and area:
    • Anchorage, 260,283 (2000);
    • Yukon-Koyukuk, 157,121 sq mi.
  • Highways: Alaska has over 12,200 miles of public roads.
    Of these land miles, over 5,500 are under state jurisdiction,
    over 4,200 miles are under local government jurisdiction,
    with the remainder under the jurisdiction of various federal agencies. Approximately one-half of the public roads are paved.
  • Live Web Cams:

  • Climate:
  • Alaska Colleges, Universities:
  • Economy:
  • Agriculture: Seafood, nursery stock, dairy products, vegetables, livestock. Industry: Petroleum and natural gas, gold and other mining, food processing, lumber and wood products, tourism.
  • Minerals: Alaska is the largest producer of zinc in the United States, responsible for over 50 percent of the 1992 domestic mine production.
    Green Creek Mine on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska was the largest silver mine in the United States from 1989 through 1992. The total Alaska silver production for 1992 represented over 17 percent of the U.S. total mine output. Alaska has the largest placer mining industry in the United States producing over 262,000 ounces of raw gold in 1992. Developing hard rock gold mines are poised to raise Alaska's gold production to over 1,000,000 ounces. Alaska currently produces over 1.5 million tons of low sulfur coal annually. About half of this coal is used to fuel interior Alaska power plants, the remainder is exported to South Korea under long term contract.
  • Editorial Cartoons:
    Lisa Herschbach

 
  • Capital: Juneau
  • Governor:
    Sarah Palin
  • Senators:
    Lisa Murkowski, R
    Ted Stevens, R

 

 

 

 

 

2000 resident census population (rank):
626,932 (48). Male: 324,112 (51.7%);
Female: 302,820 (48.3%).
White: 434,534 (69.3%);
Black: 21,787 (3.5%);
American Indian: 98,043 (15.6%);
Asian: 25,116 (4.0%);
Other race: 9,997 (1.6%);
Two or more races: 34,146 (5.4%);
Hispanic/Latino: 25,852 (4.1%).
percent population 18 and over: 69.6;
65 and over: 5.7;
median age: 32.4.

http://sled.alaska.edu/akfaq/akfaqindex.html