Legislation has already been proposed to authorize the sale of these Government-owned systems in Alaska, and its early enactment is desirable.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

The arctic fox has a circumpolar range, meaning that it is found throughout the entire Arctic, including the outer edges of Greenland, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Svalbard, as well as in Subarctic and alpine areas, such as Iceland and mainland alpine Scandinavia.

Southeast Alaska has a land area of ( sq ), comprising six entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the portion of the Yakutat Borough lying east of 141 ° West longitude.

Land selection by the state of Alaska under the Statehood Act and for the regional and village corporations has continued through the present.

The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Canadian Prairies and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.

There has been some movement to use Inuit, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, representing a circumpolar population of 150, 000 Inuit and Yupik people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia, in its charter defines Inuit for use within the ICC as including " the Inupiat, Yupik ( Alaska ), Inuit, Inuvialuit ( Canada ), Kalaallit ( Greenland ) and Yupik ( Russia ).

The term Alaska Native has important legal usage in Alaska and the rest of the United States as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.

Seward Peninsula dialects in Western Alaska, where much of the Inupiat culture has only been in place for perhaps less than 500 years, are greatly affected by phonological influence from the Yupik languages.

Of all the Alaska Native languages, Central Alaskan Yup ' ik has the most speakers, with about 10, 000 of a total Yup ' ik population of 21, 000 still speaking the language.

In Alaska the candidate for magical powers has to leave the abodes of men ; the chief of the gods sends an otter to meet him, which he kills by saying " O " four times ; he then cuts out its tongue and thereby secures the powers which he seeks.

It also has the second-highest percentage of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, after Alaska, and the fourth-highest total number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas after California, Oklahoma, and Arizona.

They continued on to complete the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean – and by its longest axis, Barrow, Alaska to Svalbard – a feat that has never been repeated.

It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the U. S. state of Alaska by the Bering Strait.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the length of the frost-free season has increased from 60 – 90 days in the early twentieth century to about 120 days a century later.

Summer warming has been shown to increase water stress and reduce tree growth in dry areas of the southern boreal forest in central Alaska, western Canada and portions of far eastern Russia.

Reduced coastal sea ice has also been implicated in the increase of stampeding deaths crowding the shorelines of the Chukchi Sea between eastern Russia and western Alaska.

* March 13 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $ 1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

Limited permits or state licenses are now required in all states except Alaska, which has no statutory authority over the practice of respiratory care.

In experimental work at University of Alaska Fairbanks, a 1000-litre digested using psychotropics harvested from " mud from a frozen lake in Alaska " has produced 200 – 300 liters of methane per day, about 20 – 30 % of the output from dig esters in warmer climates.

A thirteenth regional corporation was later created for Alaska Natives who no longer resided in Alaska.

Short-tailed Shearwaters perform an even longer " figure of 8 " loop migration in the Pacific Ocean from Tasmania to as far north as the Arctic Ocean off northwest Alaska.

The actual length of the highway inside Alaska is no longer clear because rerouting, as in Canada, has shortened the route, but unlike Canada, mileposts in Alaska are not recalibrated.

The Alaska portion of the highway is still marked by mileposts at one-mile ( 1. 6 km ) intervals, although they no longer represent accurate driving distance, due to reconstruction.

Unlike other state legislatures with longer sessions, the comparatively short Alaska Legislature session allows many lawmakers to retain outside employment, especially in the state's many seasonal industries, such as fishing and tourism.

Today, claiming land is no longer possible, yet large plots of land with little economical value ( e. g., in Alaska ) can still be bought for very low prices.

With Fort Nelson's relocation to the west following the construction of the Alaska Highway in the 1940s, there are no longer any major communities along this river.

Some of the places the family lived include Germany, a farm in Indiana, then on an army base in Alaska, then to Kansas, then to Missouri, where he lived longer than any other place until he was old enough to move away as an adult.

Because all but one reservation in Alaska ( the Annette Island reservation of the Tsimshian ) had been eliminated by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, the decision had the practical effect of making almost all Indian tribes in Alaska no longer able to collect taxes on tribal land.

North of Cape Spencer, along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska to Controller Bay and Kayak Island, are the Gulf Coast Tlingit, who live along a narrow strip of coastline backed by steep mountains and extensive glaciers, and battered by Pacific storms.

Also native to the North Pacific coastline of North America from Alaska to California.

In 1899, Harriman financed and accompanied a scientific expedition to catalog the flora and fauna of the Alaska coastline from its lush southern panhandle to Prince William Sound.

In 1899, he joined E. H. Harriman on his famous Harriman Alaska Expedition of the Alaska coastline, where he was accompanied by John Muir and a number of other naturalists and scientists, for an extended study of Alaska's coastline flora and fauna.

" However, Cook describes some bad weather in his account around this time, and did continue on to map most of the outer Pacific coastline of North America from modern day northern California to the Bering Strait in Alaska on the same voyage.

In 1899, he accompanied E. H. Harriman on his famous exploration of the Alaska coastline, the Harriman Alaska Expedition.

Lake Clark has been called " the essence of Alaska ", for it concentrates in a relatively small area of the Alaska Peninsula, Southwest of Anchorage, a variety of features not found together in any of the other Alaska Parks: the junction of three mountain ranges, ( the Alaska Range from the North, the Aleutian Range from the South, and the park's own rugged Chigmit Mountains ), two active volcanoes ( Iliamna and Redoubt ), a coastline with rainforests on the East ( similar to South East Alaska ), a plateau with tundra on the West ( similar to Arctic Alaska ), and turquoise lakes.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 254 photographs from 1899 of Edward Harriman's scientific expedition to Alaska, including images of Alaskan Native Americans and their villages, scenic views of the coastline, glaciers and Alaskan towns.

From southeast Alaska southward, marbled murrelets use mature or old-growth forest stands near the coastline for nesting.

In 1899, he helped railroad magnate E. H. Harriman to organize an exploratory voyage along the Alaska coastline.

The Aleutian Trench ( or Aleutian Trough ) is a subduction zone and oceanic trench which runs along the southern coastline of Alaska and the adjacent waters of northeastern Siberia off the coast of Kamchatka Peninsula.

The most positive accomplishment during his Administration was the purchase of Alaska from Russia, though this was probably due more to the efforts of William H. Seward than President Johnson.

Annual sunshine hours vary from 2200 near Cranbrook and Victoria to less than 1300 in Prince Rupert, located on the North Coast, just south of the Alaska Panhandle.

Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.

With an area of about 2, 717, 300 square kilometers, Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states, or about twice the size of Alaska.

In that case, the land rights were resolved more than 100 years later with the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ).

Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, seven times the size of the United Kingdom, and slightly larger than Alaska

slightly smaller than Alaska

They do not extend north of the Arctic tree line, with the northernmost species, Salamandrella keyserlingii occurring in the Siberian larch forests of Sakha and of the most northerly species in North America, Ambystoma laterale reaching no further than Labrador and Taricha granulosa not beyond the Alaska Panhandle.

In much of the boreal forest in Alaska, the growth of white spruce trees are stunted by unusually warm summers, while trees on some of the coldest fringes of the forest are experiencing faster growth than previously.

Alaska is divided into boroughs, which typically provide fewer local services than do most U. S. counties, as the state government furnishes many services directly.

Alaska is also unique in that more than half the geographic area of the state is in the " Unorganized Borough ", a legal entity in which the state also functions as the local government.

* Slightly more than half of the Athabaskan languages, such as Navajo, have simple register-tone systems ( languages in California, Oregon and a few in Alaska excluded ), but the languages that have tone fall into two groups that are mirror images of each other.

Although many populated land locations on the planet now have terrestrial communications facilities ( microwave, fiber-optic ), even undersea, with more than sufficient capacity, telephony and Internet access is still available only via satellite in many places in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as isolated locations that have no terrestrial facilities, such as Canada's Arctic islands, Antarctica, the far reaches of Alaska and Greenland, and ships at sea.

Successful Democrats in the inland West and Alaska typically take more conservative positions on environmental issues than Democrats from the Coastal states.

This is the result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ), which established regional corporations throughout Alaska with complex portfolios of land ownership rather than bounded reservations administered by tribal governments.

Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 is an independent documentary film that follows the construction of a Steinway concert grand piano for more than a year, from the search for wood in Alaska to a display at Manhattan's Steinway Hall.

There are also regional plans that offer slightly cheaper rates than the normal, but these minutes can only be used in a specified geographic location ( such as Africa, North America, Canada or Alaska ).

Continental deposits have been located in Siberia and Alaska in sandstone and siltstone beds at less than 800 m depth.

In fact, the highs reached even during summer days are usually as much as to lower than in areas farther to the north, including New York, Chicago, and areas of Alaska.

The boundaries of the borough are coterminous with that of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the borough's land area is slightly smaller than that of the state of New Jersey.

It is the second largest county in the U. S. ( excluding boroughs in Alaska ) after San Bernardino County in California and is also physically larger than many European nation-states.

The largest county or county-equivalent is the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, which is more than.