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The word Alaska is from the Aleut Indian word "alaxsxaq" or "agunalaksh" that mean the "great land" or "that which the sea breaks against" -- mainland or shore.
Alaska adopted the flag for official state use in 1959. The blue field represents the sky, the sea, and mountain lakes, as well as Alaska's wildflowers. Emblazoned on the flag are eight gold stars: seven in the constellation Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper. The eighth being the North Star, representing the northern most state. Alaska officially became the 49th state on January 3, 1959. This beautiful flag was chosen from a flag-designing contest. It was designed in 1926 by a 13-year-old Native American boy named Bennie Benson. Bennie was from the village of Chignik; he won a 1,000-dollar scholarship and a watch for winning the contest.
Juneau is the only capital city in the United States accessible only by boat or plane. In 1943 Japan invaded the Aleutian Islands, which started the One Thousand Mile War, the first battle fought on American soil since the Civil War.
10 Largest cities in Alaska (2003): Anchorage, 270,951; Juneau, 31,187; Fairbanks, 30,970; Sitka, 8,876; Ketchikan, 7,453; Kenai, 7,347; Wasilla, 7,084; Kodiak, 6,302; Bethel, 5,983; Palmer, 5,742.
Number of Burroughs (counties) in Alaska: 27.
Largest (county) in Alaska by population: Anchorage, 264,937 (2001)
Largest (county) in Alaska by area: Yukon-Koyukuk, 157,121 sq mi.
Alaska State Parks: >100 (3.5 million square miles)
Alaska Land Area: 571,951 sq mi. (1,4 81,353 sq km)
Alaska Geographic Center: 60 mi. NW of Mt. McKinley
Alaska Population: (2004 est) 655,435
Alaska's Constitution was adopted in 1956 and became effective in 1959 making it the 49th state. Outsiders first discovered Alaska in 1741 when Danish explorer Vitus Jonassen Bering sighted it on a voyage from Siberia. Joe Juneau's 1880 discovery of gold ushered in the gold rush era. The discovery of gold in the Yukon began a gold rush in 1898. Later gold was discovered at Nome and Fairbanks.
In 1968, a large oil and gas reservoir near Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic
Coast was found. The Prudhoe Bay reservoir, with an estimated
recoverable 10 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of gas,
is twice as large as any other oil field in North America. The
Trans-Alaska pipeline was completed in 1977 at a cost of $7.7 billion.
Oil flows through the 800-mile-long pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the
port of Valdez.
Alaska Agriculture: Seafood, nursery stock, dairy products, vegetables, livestock. The fishing and seafood industry is the state's largest private industry employer. Most of America's salmon, crab, halibut, and herring come from Alaska.
Alaska Industry: Petroleum and natural gas, gold and other mining,
food processing, lumber and wood products, tourism. Alaska's most
important revenue source is the oil and natural gas industry. Alaska
accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States. The
Trans-Alaska Pipeline moves up to 88,000 barrels of oil per hour on its
800 mile journey to Valdez.
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4241 B Street
Anchorage AK 99503
(907) 273-7274
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Girdwood, serving residential, new construction & land.
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Gnome, Alaska
242-376-1580
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4241 B Street
Anchorage, Alaska
907-273-7714
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