Uniquely Alaska

Purchased from Russia in 1867 for under 2 cents an acre. Alaska officially became a Territory in 1912 and granted Statehood on January 3, 1959.

BIG! Alaska is just plain BIG!

Probably the fact that gets this point across quickest is that Alaska actually spans over 4 time zones. 4 time zones are what we have from east to west coast in the Lower 48.

If you take a map of Alaska to scale and lay it over the Lower 48 states putting the end of the Aleutian chain onto the coast of California, Alaska would go past Atlanta Georgia and touch the Canadian border in Minnesota!

If you were to drive from Prudhoe Bay to Anchorage it would be equivalent to driving from Portland, Maine to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. You would go through Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia before arriving in North Carolina.

Alaska has more shoreline than the rest of the United States combined, and over 11,000 barrier islands.

586,400 Square Miles
29 volcanoes
33,000 miles of coastline!
1,400 miles North to South
2,700 miles East to West
Over 1/2 the world's Glaciers
55 miles east of Russia
only state that has coastlines on three different seas: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.

If you could see a million acres of Alaska every day, it would take you more than a year to see the entire state.

Alaska has 19 national parks, 4 national monuments and dozens of wildlife refuges. It accounts for more than half of the United State National Park system.

Denali National Park itself is larger than the state of Massachusetts!

Alaska has over 40,000 lakes that are at least 40 acres big. Look out Minnesota!

You can't drive to the state capital, Juneau.

Juneau is also the only capital of anything in the world that has a glacier inside the city limits.

With Glacier Bay National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Canada's Kluane National Park shared borders they represent the largest piece of roadless land left on the planet!

Alaska has more private pilots per capita than any place on earth.

Alaskans eat more ice cream per capita than any other state.