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Alaska Business Information | From the Census Bureau, the 2003 estimated population is 648,818, with Anchorage having about 40% of the state's total population. 15% of Alaska's population in 2000 were American Indian and Alaska Native persons, 4% were of Asian origin, and another 4% were of Hispanic or Latino origin. Alaska covers 571,951 square miles, and has an average of 1.1 person per square mile.
The nickname of the 49th state, Alaska, is the "Last Frontier." Alaska is the largest state in area and is the largest peninsula in the Western Hemisphere. Purchased from Russia for $7 million in 1867, it increased the size of America by about 20%. One of the greatest challenges for mountain climbers, Mt. McKinley in the Alaska Range is North America's highest peak at 20,320 feet. Juneau is the state's capital, the Willow Ptarmigan is Alaska's state bird, pictured below, and the state flower is the pale-blue forget-me-not, also pictured below.
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Anchorage AlaskaAirport Code ANC
More than 40 per cent, or 271,000 of Alaska's population lives in Anchorage.
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Juneau AlaskaAirport Code JNU
Juneau City and Borough population estimate 30,900.
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Skagway Alaska
Skagway is 80 air miles north northeast of Juneau.
It is the largest geographic City in Alaska with 455 square land miles.
Skagway was the first incorporated city in Alaska on June 28, 1900, and was the gateway to the Gold Rush of 1898.
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Southeast Alaska, the Alaska Panhandle
| This is a place of water and forested islands that encompasses the state's "Inside Passage." It stretches over 500 air miles north and 100 miles east. Here lie 1,000 islands, 15,000 miles of shoreline, America's largest national forest, one National Park Preserve, two National Historic Parks, two National Monuments, 12 National Wilderness Areas, thousands of coves, bays and bights. It is the home to 15,000 bald eagles, 25,000 brown bears, 60 major glaciers, and 70,000 people.
The Tongass National Forest, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, occupies 77% of the land in Southeast Alaska. At 16.8 million acres this is the largest national forest in the country and the world's largest temperate rain forest.
The compressed geography means that ocean tidewater brushes against 4,000-foot mountains capped by glaciers and ice fields. About 20,000 years ago, during the Great Ice Age, virtually all of Southeast Alaska was covered by ice. Only peaks reaching above 5,000 feet reached through the glaciers. Today their sharp points contrast with rounded mountains that were smoothed by the glacial advance.
The ice retreated about 10,000 years ago. Then about 2,000 to 3,000 years ago there was another, though smaller, glacial advance called the Little Ice Age. Today's Southeast Alaska glaciers are remnants of this last advance. They're the ones that carved and polished the Southeast landscape we see today.
Today in Southeast there are three major ice fields: the 1,500 square mile Juneau Ice Field just behind the capital city; the slightly smaller Stikine Ice Field near the communities of Wrangell and Petersburg; and the Brady Ice Field in Glacier Bay National Park.
Another dominating feature of the Southeast geography left behind by the glacier's retreat are the salt-water fjords. Some still have active glaciers calving mammoth ice blocks into the ocean and creating one of Southeast's major visitor attractions.
There are over 33 communities scattered mostly on islands through Southeast. Juneau is the largest city in Southeast and the 3rd largest city in the state, with about 32,000 residents. Smaller fishing villages may have only a few hundred residents.
Daylight hours vary. On the longest day of the year, the sun rises in Juneau at 3:51 a.m. and doesn't set until 10:09 p.m. Of course, that changes in the winter. On the shortest day of the year in Juneau, the sun rises at 8:46 a.m. and sets 6 hr. and 22 minutes later at 3:08 p.m.
The ocean tides vary greatly throughout Southeast. The highest high tide is 12.6 feet in Sitka and 20 feet in Juneau. There may be as much as a 24-foot difference between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide.
Southeast Alaska is a scenic and inspiring place to be!
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