First Children Encyclopedia

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Canada and Alaska

What is the tallest mountain in North America, at 6,194 m (20,320 ft) high?


The Americas


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Vancouver
Island

The Trans-Alaskan Pipeline


The USA’s largest oil-drilling area is
in Alaska. A huge overground pipeline,
1,287 km (800 miles) long, carries the oil
from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.

Northwest Territories


Victoria Island


Ellesmere
Island

Queen Elizabeth
Islands

Alberta


British
Columbia Grizzly
bear

Calgary

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Juneau

Salmon

Mountie
(policeman)

Musk ox

Yukon
Territory

Edmonton

Yellowknife

Saskatchewan


Alaska (USA)


Huskies
pulling sled

Moose

Calgary skyline

Valdez

Anchorage

Walrus

USA


Victoria

Whitehorse

Timber

Totem pole

Fur seal

Canadian

Mount McKinley
(Denali)
6,194m (20,320ft)

Canada is the second-largest country in the


world, and Alaska is the largest of all the US


states. Despite their huge size, both places have


small populations because much of the land


is covered in thick forest


or frozen for most


of the year.


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Prudhoe
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