Nifty Fifty United States
Alaska

	Capital	Juneau
	Area	591,000 sq miles
	Nickname	The Last Frontier Land of the Midnight Sun
	Motto	"North to the Future"
	State Bird	Willow ptarmigan
	State Flower	Forget-me-not
	State Tree	Sitka Spruce
	State Song	"Alaska's Flag"
	Time Zone	Pacific
	Highest Point	Mount McKinley 20, 320 feet Highest Point in North America
	Lowest Point	Gulf of Alaska Sea Level
	Postal Abbreviation	AK

Geography

Alaska is located in the northwest corner of North America. It is bordered on the east by Canada on the north by the Arctic Ocean, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. To its west is Russia.

Interesting Facts and Trivia

The name Alaska comes from the Aleut Indians and means "great land" or "mainland."

In 1741, Vitus Bering and Alexi Chirikov discovered Alaska and the Aleutian Islands for Russia.

The Ubited States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. It was called "Seward's Folly," because it cost two cents an acre.

Interesting Places

Page created on June 26, 1999

Artist: John Audubon
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