Alaska Vacation Rental

Alaska Vacation Rental

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Alaska is a sparsely populated state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent. It is the largest USA state by area (by a substantial margin), and one of the wealthiest.

It is the most northerly, western and easterly state of the USA.

Anchorage recently completed extensive remodeling and construction at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to help accommodate the upsurge in tourism.

Lake Hood Seaplane Base is an aircraft and seaplane base located three miles southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the UA. state of Alaska. A gravel runway located adjacent to the seaplane base is known as Lake Hood Airstrip.

Alaska has many smaller towns, especially in the Alaska Bush, the portion of the state that is inaccessible by road.

Some of the major cities include ;

Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau (State Capital), Eagle River

Other important towns and cities include ;

Ketchikan, Sitka, Wasilla, Kenai, Kodiak, Palmer, Bethel, Barrow, Unalaska, Valdez, Soldotna, Homer, Nome, Petersburg, Kotzebue, Seward, Dillingham, Cordova, Haines, North Pole, Hooper Bay, Craig, Houston

The climate in Juneau and the southeast panhandle is a mid latitude oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) in the southern sections and a subarctic oceanic climate (Köppen Cfc) in the northern parts. On an annual basis, this is both the wettest and warmest part of Alaska with milder temperatures in the winter and high precipitation throughout the year.

Alaska is one of two USA. states not bordered by another state, Hawaii being the other. Alaska has more coastline than all the other USA. states combined. It is the only non contiguous USA. state on continental North America; about 800 km of Canadian territory separate Alaska from Washington State. Alaska is thus an exclave of the United States, part of the continental USA. but is not part of the contiguous USA. Juneau, Alaska's capital city, though located on the mainland of the North American continent, is inaccessible by land, no roads connect Juneau to the rest of the North American highway system.

The state is bordered by the Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada, to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 570,380 square miles, more than twice as large as Texas, the next largest state. It is larger than all but 18 sovereign nations.

Regions

Aleutian Islands, Arctic Alaska, Bush Alaska, Interior, Kenai Peninsula, Mat-Su Valley, North Slope, Southeast, Seward Peninsula, Southcentral, Southwest, Tanana Valley, Yukon - Kuskokwim Delta

The Aleutian Islands cross longitude 180°, so Alaska can be considered the easternmost state as well as the westernmost. Alaska, and especially the Aleutians, are one of the extreme points of the United States. The International Date Line jogs west of 180° to keep the whole state, and thus the entire continental United States, within the same legal day.

Alaska is larger than the combined area of either: The next 3 largest states: Texas, California, and Montana.

One scheme for describing the state's geography is by labeling the regions:

South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region and contains most of the state's population. Anchorage and many growing towns, such as Eagle River, Palmer, and Wasilla, lie within this area. Petroleum industrial plants, transportation, tourism, and two military bases form the core of the economy here.
The Alaska Panhandle, also known as Southeast Alaska, is home to many of Alaska's larger towns including the state capital Juneau, tidewater glaciers, the many islands and channels of the Alexander Archipelago and extensive forests. Tourism, fishing, forestry and state government anchor the economy.
Southwest Alaska is largely coastal, bordered by both the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. It is sparsely populated, and unconnected to the road system, but very important to the fishing industry. Half of all fish caught in the western USA. come from the Bering Sea, and Bristol Bay has the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. Southwest Alaska includes Katmai and Lake Clark national parks as well as numerous wildlife refuges. The region comprises western Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay and its watersheds, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. It is known for wet and stormy weather, tundra landscapes, and large populations of salmon, brown bears, caribou, birds, and marine mammals.
The Alaska Interior is home to Fairbanks. The geography is marked by large braided rivers, such as the Yukon River and the Kuskokwim River, as well as Arctic tundra lands and shorelines.
The Alaskan Bush is the remote, less crowded part of the state, encompassing 380 native villages and small towns such as Nome, Bethel, Kotzebue and, most famously, Barrow, the northernmost town in the United States, as well as the northern most town on the contiguous North American continent (cities in Greenland, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut that are farther north are on islands).

The northeast corner of Alaska is covered by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which covers 77,090 km². Much of the northwest is covered by the larger National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska, which covers around 23,000,000 acres. The Arctic is Alaska's most remote wilderness. A location in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska is 120 miles miles from any town or village, the geographic point most remote from permanent habitation in the USA.

With its myriad islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles of tidal shoreline. The Aleutian Islands chain extends west from the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Many active volcanoes are found in the Aleutians. Unimak Island, for example, is home to Mount Shishaldin which is a moderately active volcano that rises to 9,980 feet above sea level. The chain of volcanoes extends to Mount Spurr, west of Anchorage on the mainland.

One of North America's largest tides occurs in Turnagain Arm, just south of Anchorage - tidal differences can be more than 35 feet. (Many sources say Turnagain has the second greatest tides in North America, but several areas in Canada have larger tides).

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