Gravel floodplain of a glacial river near the Snow Mountains in Alaska, 1902

The Russians however did not engage in any significant mining activities and it wasn't until after the purchase of Alaska in 1867 that the American prospectors began seriously investigating the potential for prospecting along the Kuskokwim river.

The Village is located on the eastern shore of the Ugashik River some and by river from the village of Pilot Point, Alaska.

This lottery began in 1917 when a group of surveyors working for the Alaska Railroad whiled the time they spent waiting for the river to open and boats with supplies to reach them by forming a betting pool.

The majority of the population breeds on wetlands in the Boreal Forest and subartic river deltas of Canada and Alaska.

As he ended up reaching the Arctic Ocean on July 14, it is conjectured that he named the river " Disappointment River " as it did not lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska as he had expected.

Other important breeding areas are the subarctic river deltas in Saskatchewan and the interior of Alaska.

* The Yukon River, a river of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, for which the territory was named

* Whiting River, a river in Alaska and British Columbia

The Susitna River () ( Sasut Na ’ in Ahtna ) is a long river in the Southcentral Alaska.

Susitna River was named by the Dena ’ ina Alaska Native people meaning " sandy river ".

Both steelhead trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) and King salmon are extant in the river, making the Guadalupe River one of several major U. S. cities with known salmon spawning runs, including Anchorage, Alaska ; Seattle, Washington ; Portland, Oregon and Sacramento, California.

The Copper River or Ahtna River ( Ahtna Athabascan ' Atna ) is a 300-mile ( 480 km ) river in south-central Alaska in the United States.

The name of the river comes for the abundant copper deposits along the upper river that were used by Alaska Native population and then later by settlers from the Russian Empire and the United States.

The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River ( Kusquqvak in Central Yup ' ik ) is a river, long, in Southwest Alaska in the United States.

The river provides the principal drainage for an area of the remote Alaska Interior on the north and west side of the Alaska Range, flowing southwest into Kuskokwim Bay on the Bering Sea.

In southwest Alaska the river emerges from the Kuskokwim Mountains in a vast lake-studded alluvial plain south of the Yukon River, surrounded by vast spruce forests.

The primary route of the Iditarod Trail follows the South Fork Kuskokwim River out of the Alaska Range and crosses the main stem of the river near McGrath.

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 upper valley of the river furnishes approximately 100 mi ( 160 km ) of the northern route of both the Alaska Railroad and the Parks Highway ( Alaska State Highway 3 ) connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage.

The river is one of the most popular destinations for whitewater rafting in Alaska.

Determine for each State ( except the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ) that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50% as the particular State's average per capita income bears to the average per capita income of the U. S..

Determine for each State ( except the Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ), that percentage which bears the same ration to 40% as the particular State's average per capita income bears to the average per capita income of the United States.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Southeast Alaska is a temperate rain forest within the Pacific temperate rain forest zone, as classified by the World Wildlife Fund's ecoregion system, which extends from northern California to Prince William Sound.

The interior of Alaska is largely underlined by discontinuous permafrost, which grades to continuous permafrost as the Arctic Circle is approached.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

U. S. government intervention, to which the states of Alaska, Idaho, and Oregon objected, included an 11-day closure of an Alaska fishery.

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside 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.

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

" While there were hostile incidents at the end of Vancouver's last season – the most serious of which involved a clash with Tlingits at Behm Canal in southeast Alaska in 1794 – these were the exceptions to Vancouver's exploration of the U. S. and Canadian Northwest coast.

There are several feast days throughout the year on which Saint Herman of Alaska is commemorated.

When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).

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.

By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland in Europe to Alaska in North America.

In many places, the international border runs along the crest of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains ( see Alaska boundary dispute ).

From west to east the Northwest Passage runs through the Bering Strait ( separating Russia and Alaska ), Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and then through several waterways that go through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

* Lewes River, previous name of the upper portion of the Yukon River which runs through Yukon, Canada, and Alaska, USA.

An international border with Canada ( British Columbia ) runs along the crest of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains ( see also: Alaska boundary dispute ).

The trail runs from Willow up the Rainy Pass of the Alaska Range into the sparsely populated interior, and then along the shore of the Bering Sea, finally reaching Nome in western Alaska.

It begins at the junction with several Canadian highways in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and runs to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon.

It runs east to west, north of and roughly parallel to the imposing Alaska Range.

They form part of the American Cordillera, an essentially continuous sequence of mountain ranges that runs all the way from Alaska to the very tip of South America.

In 1883 the Arctic Pack Company established a cannery at Nushagak Bay in Southwest Alaska, where they were able to exploit the immense runs of salmon.

It begins at a point on the Alaska Highway 28 km ( 17 mi ) northwest of Fort Nelson and runs 138 km ( 86 mi ) northeast through expanses of forest to the border of British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, beyond which it continues for 254 km as a very rough packed dirt and gravel road, designated Highway 7.

By international treaty between the US and Canada, operation in the portion of the band from 420 to 430 MHz is prohibited north of Line A, which runs just south of the Canadian border from Washington state to Maine, and east of Line C, which runs from northeast to southeast Alaska.

The longest stretch of freeway in Alaska runs mostly along the Glenn Highway, beginning in north Anchorage, continuing onto the Parks Highway at the interchange of the two roads, and ending in the city limits of Wasilla, for a total of approximately 38 miles ( 61 km ).

The George Parks Highway ( numbered Interstate A-4 and Alaska Route 3 ), usually called simply the Parks Highway, runs 323 miles ( 520 km ) from the Glenn Highway 35 miles ( 56 km ) north of Anchorage to Fairbanks in the Alaska Interior.

* M / V Taku, runs mainline throughout Southeast Alaska.

* M / V Malaspina, runs mainline throughout Southeast Alaska, frequently beginning in Bellingham.

* M / V Matanuska, runs mainline throughout Southeast Alaska, frequently beginning in Prince Rupert, but beginning in Bellingham for Spring 2011.

* M / V Kennicott, runs mainline throughout Southeast Alaska, frequently beginning in Prince Rupert and making a cross-Gulf of Alaska trip to Southcentral Alaska once a month.

* M / V Columbia, runs mainline throughout Southeast Alaska, frequently beginning in Bellingham.