World Atlas 2010 (4th edition)

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NORTH AMERICA

Western Canada & Alaska

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Arctic Circle
ARCTIC
PACIFIC
OCEAN

Gulf

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Alaska

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Queen Charlotte Is.

Vancouver I.

Kodiak I.

Unalaska I.

Nunivak I.

St. Lawrence I.

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Wrangel I.

Mt McKinley

(Denali)

20,322ft (6194m)

ALASKA

YUKON

TERRITORY

BRITISH

COLUMBIA

(part of USA)

RUSSIAN

FEDERATION

Anchorage

VICTORIA

JUNEAU

WHITEHORSE

Valdez

Kodiak

Cordova

Fairbanks

Prudhoe

Bay

Port Hardy

Ketchikan

Prince Rupert

Dutch Harbor

In 1867 William Henry Seward negotiated

the purchase of Alaska from Russia for

the price of $7,200,000, which amounted

to around two cents per acre (0.4 hectares).

The Aleutian Islands span some 1200 miles

(1800 km) and by crossing the 180º line of

longitude, form both the most easterly

and westerly extents of the United States.

On July 9, 1958, a massive landslide

dropped 40 million cubic yards

(30.6 million cu m) of rock into Lituya Bay,

creating a wave 1720 ft (524 m) high.