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WELCOME TO ALASKA

ALASKA

ALASKA

ALASKA

ALASKA IS A PLACE OF CONTRAST.

MOST OF ALASKA IS STILL A WILD FRONTIER,YET YOU CAN FIND SKYSCRAPER.AN ESKIMO PUTS OUT TO SEA IN A WHALESKIN BOAT.ALASKA IS NOT ALL SNOW AND ICE,HOWEVER,IN WINTER.IN SUMMER THE TEMPERATURE SOARS TO 100 F.HERE TRUCK GARDENS GROW STRAWBERRIES AS BIG AS PLUMS.

ALASKA

THE MOST POINT IN U.S. IS POINT BARROW.ALASKA IS BIG-TWICE AS BIG AS TEXAS.NORTH AMERICA’S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IS IN ALASKA-MT.McKINLEY.IN MALASPINA GLACIER IS A VOLKANO WITH A CRATER 6 MILES ACROSS.SALMON FISHING

IS THE MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY,BUT GOLD IS WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK OF ALASKA.

ALASKA

WITH THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN THE LATE 1800S PROSPECTORS POISED INTO ALASKA’SWILDERNESS.MANY OF THEM SETTLED THERE.TODAY ALASKA PRODUCES MORE PLATINUM THAT ANY OTHER STATE.ALASKANS CUT TIMBER FOR THEIR PUMP MILLS,PUMP OIL FROM UNDER THE SEA,AND PRODUCE MANY BEAUTIFUL FURS.

ALASKA

TRAVEL AGENCIES

ALASKA’S CAPITAL CITY

JUNEAU,ALASKA’S CAPITAL IS THE LARGEST CITY IN THE REGION.IT HAS 29,000 RESIDENTS.THE CAPITAL STRECHS ALONG THE SHORE AT THE FOOT OF MOUNTAINS.THE CITY STARTED WITH GOLD MINING IN 1880.NOW GOVERNMENT AND TOURISM ARE THE MAIN EMPLOYERS.

WHAT THING WELL KNOWN IN ALASKA?

1.THIS WORD COMES TO MIND FIRST WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK OF ALASKA.

2.THIS FISH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THIS REGION.

3.THIS IS THE LARGEST SEA ANIMAL IN THE COASTAL WATERS.

WHAT THING IS WELL KNOWN IN ALASKA?

4.THIS IS THE STATE TREE.

5.THESE PEOPLE ARE NATIVES.

6.ALASKANS USE THIS THING TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS.

7.THIS IS ONE OF THE MAIN BRANCHES OF ECONOMY IN ALASKA.

‘ HOW THE FISH CAME INTO THE SEA’

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WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT ALASKA?

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