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

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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.

Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).

* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.

The energy released was approximately twice that of the next most powerful earthquake, the Good Friday Earthquake, which was centered in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bogland, but muskeg is the standard term in Western Canada and Alaska, while ' bog ' is common elsewhere.

The Borough and District boundaries are the same, and stretch over approximately of road-less, mostly treeless tundra, from the middle of the Alaska Peninsula to the north and east, going southwest out to Akutan just east of Dutch Harbor.

He saw that Alaska was approximately equal distance from all of the major urban-industrial centers of the world.

This Act awarded approximately of Federal land in Alaska to private native corporations which were created under the ANCSA.

The Tule Geese of the American Pacific coast, which in 2010 numbered approximately 650, 000 birds, nest in western Alaska.

The modern village of Tanacross is accessible by a short access road from the Alaska Highway, and some speakers now reside in the regional center of Tok, located approximately ten miles east of the village on the highway.

The Milepost shows the Canadian section of the highway now to be approximately, but the first milepost inside Alaska is 1222.

Today CN owns approximately of track in 8 provinces ( the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island ), as well as a stretch of track into the Northwest Territories to Hay River on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake ; it is the northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American Rail Network, as far north as Anchorage, Alaska.

Had the Russian Empire not sold on March 30, 1867, for approximately $ 360 million in 2008 dollars, the territory that in 1959 became the state of Alaska, their thirteenth neighbor would have been Canada.

In spite of the extreme northern location, there is no permafrost, as the mean annual temperature is approximately, about the same as Anchorage, Alaska which is located at a latitude of 61 ° North.

Third Fleet's area of responsibility includes approximately fifty million square miles of the eastern and northern Pacific ocean areas including the Bering Sea, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and a sector of the Arctic.

In Barrow, Alaska in 2005, more than 91 percent of the Iñupiat households which were interviewed still participated in the local subsistence economy, compared with the approximately 33 percent of non-Iñupiat households who used wild resources obtained from hunting, fishing, or gathering.

The ACS has an initial sample of approximately 3 million housing unit addresses and group quarters in the United States, with sample selected from all counties and county-equivalents, American Indian and Alaska Native area, and Hawaiian Homeland, and in Puerto Rico annually.

Alverstone and Hubbard form a corner of the U. S .- Canadian border: the border extends roughly south from these peaks toward the Alaska panhandle, and roughly west toward Mount Saint Elias, approximately 100 km ( 60 mi ) away.

The Copper enters the Gulf of Alaska approximately 50 miles ( 80 km ) southeast of Cordova.

The Stikine River () is a river, historically also the Stickeen River, approximately 610 km ( 379 mi ) long, in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States.

The Koyukuk River ( Ooghekuhno ’ in Koyukon ) is a principal tributary of the Yukon River, approximately 500 mi ( 805 km ) long, in northern Alaska in the United States.

The Nenana River () is a tributary of the Tanana River, approximately 150 mi ( 241 km ) long, in central Alaska in the United States.