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FACTS ABOUT ALASKA AND ITS HISTORY

• Alaska is huge! If you cut it in half and turned it into two different states, Texas would be the third largest state. (Source: World Almanac of the U.S.A.)

• Alaska equals in size the 21 smallest states of the continental U.S.A. (Source: National Geographic Society)

• Alaskan joke: never shoot a grizzley bear - that'll just piss him off.

• The distance from eastern Alaska to the westernmost island of Alaska is roughly equal to the distance between the West Coast and the East Coast of the continental U.S.A. (Source: Rand McNally U.S.A. map)

• On the island of Unalaska, Alaska they say that "there's a woman behind every tree." On the island of Unalaska there are less than a dozen trees.

• The Aleutian island of Unalaska, Alaska is "one of the most remote corners of the North American continent" and is only accessible by boat or plane. (Source: Let's Go Alaska!)

• In Alaska, they say "you don't lose your wife - you lose your place in line." (popular Alaska saying)

• The population of Unalaska, Alaska is officially 4,200 people. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

• The port of Dutch Harbor on the island of Unalaska is the biggest fishing port (in volume) in the U.S.A. (Source: Let's go Alaska!)

• Unalaska and the Bering Sea that surrounds it has some of the worst weather in the world. (Source: The Discovery Channel)

• Commercial fishing on the Bering Sea is one of the world's most dangerous professions. (Source: Alaska Dept. of Labor)

• The Alaska pipeline had a tremendous impact on Alaska's history and is considered one of the greates feats of modern engineering. It crosses three mountain ranges, and is eight hundred miles/1300 kilometers long. (The distance between Chicago and New York City is 821 miles). (Sources: Amazing Pipeline Stories by Dermont Cole and Rand McNally.)

• The Alaskan pipeline had a peak workforce of nearly thirty-thousand people. (Source: Amazing Pipeline Stories by Dermont Cole)

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