50 Quick Facts about Alaska

Wayne Wheelwright

Description

This book is part of a series of 50 quick facts about each of the United States of America. This book covers the state of Alaska. Facts about the major cities, the history of the state, famous people linked to Alaska, the states intriguing climate and topography and many more subjects. This book contains all you will ever need to know about the last frontier state.

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 18 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783332755
• Langue: English

Extrait

Title Page
50 QUICK FACTS ABOUT ALASKA


By
Wayne Wheelwright



Publisher Information
50 Quick Facts about Alaska
Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Copyright © 2013 Wayne Wheelwright
The right of Wayne Wheelwright to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.



Facts Alaska is the furthest north state of the United States. It borders Canada to it’s East. To Alaska’s north is the Arctic Ocean and it has the Pacific Ocean on it’s west and south. The Bering Strait is the waterway 82 kilometres wide that stretches between Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska. By land area Alaska is the largest of the 50 states with an area of 663,268 square miles. Alaska is 2,261 miles wide and 1,420 miles long. Despite it’s excessive amount of land Alaska is the fourth least populated state and easily the least densely populated with around half of the state’s population living within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska has the longest coastline of all the United States and if you added all the coastlines of the other 49 states together it still wouldn’t add up to the amount of coastline Alaska has.