Alaska state

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Alaska state

• Alaska - the largest in the territory of the U.S.
  state, on the northwestern outskirts of North
  America. Includes self-titled Peninsula, Aleutian
  Islands, a narrow strip of Pacific coast, along
  with the islands of the Alexander Archipelago
  along the west of Canada and the mainland.

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Symbols of Alaska
Flag of Alaska
Printing of Alaska
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Geography

• Staff located in the extreme north-west of
  the continent, is separated from the Chukchi
  Peninsula (Russia), the Bering Strait to the east
  by Canada, to the west in a small area of
  ??Bering Strait - with Russia. Consists of the
  mainland and the large number of islands
  Alexander Archipelago, Aleutian Islands, Pribilof
  Islands, Kodiak Island, the island of St.
  Lawrence. Washed by the Arctic and Pacific
  Oceans. On the Pacific Coast - Alaska Range, the
  inner part - plateau of 1200 m in the east to 600
  m in the west, passes into the lowlands. In the
  north - Brooks Range, beyond which lies the
  Arctic lowlands.

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Juneau, the capital of Alaska

• Juneau - a city in the U.S., the capital of
  Alaska. Population - 30 987 (2005).
• The city was founded in 1881, shortly after the
  discovery of gold deposits. Named in honor of the
  prospector Joseph Juneau (born Joseph Juneau).
• In the city fishing, tourism, pulp and paper
  industry.
• Roads to the city not only can get on the ferry
  or plane.

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Anchorage city

• Anchorage-city in the U.S., located in the
  southeastern part of Alaska. Population - over
  277 thousand people (2005). Is the largest city
  in Alaska. 42 of the state's population lives in
  Anchorage, only New York has a higher percentage
  of residents living in the largest city in the
  state. A major transport hub (port).

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Opening Alaska

• In the Western tradition to assume that the first
  white man to set foot on the ground in Alaska,
  was GV Steller . The book Bernhard Grzhimeka
  "From Cobra to a grizzly bear," says Steller
  first noticed on the horizon of the mountainous
  contours Alaskan islands, and he was impatient to
  continue his biological research. However, the
  captain of the ship MV Behring had other
  intentions and was soon ordered to weigh anchor
  and go back. Steller was extremely angered by
  this decision and eventually insisted that the
  captain gave him at least ten hours on a survey
  of the island kayak, where the ship will still
  have to stick to replenish stocks of fresh water.
  Article about his research deed-raid Steller
  called "Description of the plants collected for 6
  hours in America" ??.
• But in fact the first Europeans who visited
  Alaska on Aug. 21, 1732 were members of the team
  bot "St. Gabriel "at the beginning of the
  surveyor, MS and Gvozdev podshturmana Fedorov
  during the expedition, AF Shestakov and D. And.
  Pavlutskogo 1729-1735 years 3. In addition,
  there is anecdotal information about the visit by
  the Russian people of America in the XVII century
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Vitus Bering
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Russian America and the sale of Alaska

• Since July 9, 1799 to October 18, 1867 Alaska
  with the adjacent islands were under control of
  the Russian-American Company. However, after
  Russia had abolished serfdom in order to pay
  compensation to landowners, Alexander II was
  forced in 1862 to take the Rothschilds 15 million
  pounds sterling at 5 per annum. Debt Rothschilds
  had returned, and the Grand Duke Konstantin
  Nikolayevich - younger brother of the Emperor -
  offered to sell Alaska.

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U.S. State

• Since 1867 Alaska was under the jurisdiction of
  the military and the U.S. Department named
  "District of Alaska, in 1884-1912," district ",
  then" the territory "(1912-1959), from 1959 - the
  U.S. state.
• Five years later, gold was discovered. The region
  grew slowly until the beginning of the Klondike
  gold rush in 1896. Over the years, the gold rush
  in Alaska had produced about one thousand tons of
  gold 5 that the prices in April 2005
  corresponded to 13-14 billion dollars.
• Alaska declared a state in 1959. Since 1968,
  there developed various mineral resources,
  particularly in the Gulf of Prudhoe Bay,
  south-east of Point Barrow. In 1977 oil pipeline
  from Prudhoe Bay-Bay to the port of Valdez. In
  1989 oil spill from the tanker Exxon Valdez
  caused serious environmental pollution.

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Economy

• In the north of extraction of crude oil (in the
  Prudhoe Bay area and Kenai Peninsula, Alyeska
  pipeline length of 1250 km to the port Valdiz),
  natural gas, coal, copper, iron, gold, zinc,
  fishing, reindeer breeding, forestry and hunting
  business air transport military airbase.
  Tourism.
• Oil production has begun to play a huge role in
  the 1970's. after the discovery of oil fields and
  laying of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Alaskan oil
  field is compared in importance to the oil fields
  in Western Siberia and in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Population

• Although the state is one of the least populated
  country in the 1970's moved here, many new
  residents, attracted by vacancies in the oil
  industry and transport, and in 1980 the
  population growth of over 36 percent.
• The population growth of recent decades
• 1990 - 550 000 inhabitants
• 2004 - 648,818 inhabitants
• 2005 - 663,661 inhabitants.
• 2006 - 677,456 inhabitants.
• 2007 - 690,955 inhabitants.
• In 2005, the population of Alaska increased from
  the previous year to 5,906 people, or 0.9.
  Compared with the year 2000 the population
  increased by 36,730 persons (5.9). This includes
  a natural increase of population at 36,590 people
  (53,132 births minus 16,542 deaths) since the
  last census, as well as an increase due to
  migration to the 1181 Human. Immigration from
  outside the United States has increased the
  population of Alaska to 5800 people, while
  internal migration has reduced it to 4,619
  people. The population density in Alaska is the
  lowest among all U.S. states.
• About 75 percent of the population are white,
  born in the United States. In the state of about
  88 thousand. indigenous inhabitants - the Indians
  (Athabascan, Haida, Tlingit, simshiane), Eskimos
  and Aleuts. Live in the state is also a small
  number of descendants of Russian. Among major
  religious groups - Catholics, Orthodox,
  Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists. The share
  the Orthodox element according to various
  estimates of 8-10, the highest in the country.

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McKinley Mountain

• McKinley - two-headed mountain in Alaska, the
  highest mountain in North America. Located in the
  heart of Denali National Park. Named in honor of
  the 25 th president of the United States, William
  McKinley.
• Height of 6,194 meters (according to the USGS
  1). Relative height - 6,138 m (third in the
  list of the biggest mountains in the relative
  height).

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Denali National Park

• Denali National Park-Biosphere Reserve (the
  American sense - the park) in U.S. total area of
  ??about 25,000 km ² located in the heart of
  Alaska (baro Denali).
• In the park is the highest peak of America -
  Mount McKinley (6,193 m). Mount McKinley is part
  of the Alaska Range, which continues to grow,
  resulting in an annual earthquake (for the most
  part pretty weak).
• Currently, the park attracts more than one
  million tourists a year.

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The Nature of Alaska
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