A Ton of Alaskan Info Compiled just for You in One Place!

• Alaska Facts - Official insect to active volcanoes
• Get an Alaskan Education - Cities, Museums, Libraries, Education, Native Culture, Animals, & Government
• Outdoors - Parks, refuges, glaciers, etc.
• Tours - From Dogled to Fly in fishing.
• Places to Stay - Hotels, Motels, B&B's.
• Info for Visitors
• Vendors - Alaskan-made products on the internet.
• Alaskan Media & Multimedia - Newspapers, Magazines, TV, Photos, etc.
• Sports in Alaska - Figure skating to mushing
• Misc. Alaska Info - Featuring various services such as restuarants, beauty salons, etc. as well as other uncategorized sites.

All information below, taken from the "Official" site of the state of Alaska.

FAQALASKA

• Meaning of Alaska: comes from Alyeska - an Aleut term which means "The Great Land"
• Purchased from Russia by U.S. in 1867
• Organized as a territory: 1912.
• Entered the union: Jan. 3, 1959; 49th state
• State nickname - "The Last Frontier"
• State Capital - Juneau
• State Motto - "North to the Future"
• Alaska Day - October 18 is the anniversary of the formal transfer of the territory and the raising of the US. flag at Sitka on October 18, 1867. William Seward payed $7.2 million.
• State Flag - The blue field is for the sky and the forget-me-not, the state flower. The North Star is for the future of the state of Alaska, the most northerly of the Union. The dipper is for the Great Bear, symbolizing strength.
• Number of boroughs: 14
• Land area: 570,373.6 square miles -- largest state in the union; one-fifth the size of the "Lower 48"
• State population: 622,000
• Largest city: Anchorage 257,000
• Highest/Lowest temperatures: Highest 100 degrees F at Fort Yukon, 1915. Lowest -80 degrees at Prospect Creek Camp, 1971.
• Heaviest annual snowfall: 974.5 inches at Thompson Pass near Valdez, during the winter of 1952-53.
• Tallest mountain: Mount McKinley, 20,320 feet.
• World's largest producer of zinc: Red Dog Mine
• Largest natural freshwater lake: Iliamna, 1,150 square miles.
• Longest river: Yukon, 1,875 miles in Alaska, rest in Canada, 2,298 miles total.
• Largest glacier: Bering Glacier complex, 2,250 square miles, which includes the Bagley Icefield.
• Farthest north supermarket: In Barrow, constructed on stilts to prevent central heating from thawing permafrost; cost $4 million.
• World's largest and busiest seaplane base: Lake Hood in Anchorage, accommodating more than 800 takeoffs and landings on a peak summer day; record peak set in 1984 for one day, 1,200. Weekdays see an average of 500 landings and takeoffs.
• Largest state park in the nation: Wood-Tikchik State Park with 1.6 million acres of wilderness.
• State mineral: Gold
• State sport: Dog mushing - It was once a primary form of transportation in many areas of Alaska.
• State bird: Willow ptarmigan - This bird changes color from light brown in summer to snow white in winter.
• State Flower - The forget-me-not, which grows well throughout Alaska, is the state flower.
• State Gem - Alaska’s state gem is jade. Alaska has large deposits of the gem, including an entire mountain of jade on the Seward Peninsula.
• State Fish - The giant king salmon, which weighs up to 100 pounds, is the state fish.
• State Tree - The Sitka spruce. It is found in southeastern and central Alaska.
• Land Mammal - The moose was made the official Alaska land mammal on May 1, 1998.
• Marine Mammal - Bowhead whale
• Insect - Dragonfly
• World's largest concentration of bald eagles: Along the Chilkat River, just north of Haines. As many as 3,000 bald eagles can gather here in fall and winter months for late salmon runs.
• America's biggest earthquake: Occurred March 27, 1964, Good Friday. Measures 8.6 on the Richter scale (since revised upward to 9.2 -- the strongest ever recorded in North America), the earthquake devastated much of Southcentral Alaska.
• Attractions: The top most-visited attractions in Alaska are natural/scenic: the Inside Passage, Portage Glacier and Mendenhall Glacier.
• Barrels of oil per day: On June 11, 1996, BP's Milne Field on Alaska's North Slope reached a production of 50,000 barrels of oil per day. When it reaches an expected production of 65,000 barrels/day late in 1996, it will be among the top 10 producing fields in the U.S
• Mountains - Of the 20 highest peaks in the United States, 17 are in Alaska. Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is 20,320 ft. above sea level. Denali, the Indian name for the peak, means "The Great One."
• Water Bodies - The Yukon River, almost 2,000 miles long, is the third longest river in the U.S. There are more than 3,000 rivers in Alaska and over 3 million lakes. The largest, Lake Iliamna, encompasses over 1,000 square miles.
• Glaciers - Alaska has an estimated 100,000 glaciers, ranging from tiny cirque glaciers to huge valley glaciers. There are more active glaciers and ice fields in Alaska than in the rest of the inhabited world. The largest glacier is the Malaspina at 850 square miles. Five percent of the state, or 29,000 square miles, is covered by glaciers.
• Coastline - Alaska has 6,640 miles of coastline and, including islands, has 33,904 miles of shoreline.
• Volcanoes - There are more than 70 potentially active volcanoes in Alaska. Several have erupted in recent times. The most violent volcanic eruption of the century took place in 1912 when Novarupta Volcano erupted, creating the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes which is now part of Katmai National Park.
• Earthquakes - On March 27, 1964, North America’s strongest recorded earthquake, with a moment magnitude of 9.2, rocked central Alaska. Each year Alaska has approximately 5,000 earthquakes, including 1,000 that measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale. Of the ten strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the world, three have occurred in Alaska.
• Everything you would ever want to know about the Aurora Borealis.

All above info courtesy of the "Official" site of the state of Alaska.