Alaska - A Freezing Adventure
with Canada lies a bit (or rather, a lot, judging by the size of
it) of Uncle Sam's land. Alaska is somewhat of a forgotten
American state. It is also the last one. Lands that are mostly
in the Artic Circle, mountains as high as the Himalayas, Alaska
is an ice-paradise on Earth.



Alaska is the 49th state of the USA. It was incorporated on
January 3, 1959. The Alaskan population is 626,932 according to
the 2000 US census. "Alaska" derives from the Aleut Alyeska
('greater land'). Its borders meet British Columbia and the
Yukon Territory to the east, the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of
Alaska to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait and Chukchi
Sea to the west,...
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