The climate of Western Alaska is determined in large part by the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.

The Alaska Native Heritage Center celebrates the rich heritage of Alaska's 11 cultural groups.

The University of Alaska has attempted to combat this by offering partial four year scholarships to the top 10 of Alaska high school graduates, via the Alaska Scholars Program.

Alaska's court system has four levels the Alaska Supreme Court, the Alaska Court of Appeals, the superior courts and the district courts.

The willow ptarmigan is common in much of Alaska.

The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 by a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate.

The climate of the interior of Alaska is subarctic.

Alaska was officially proclaimed a state on January 3, 1959.

Agriculture represents a very small fraction of the Alaskan economy.

This wildflower is native to western North America from Arizona to Alaska.

It is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

The Russian Orthodox Church also sent missionaries to Alaska beginning in the 18th century, including Saint Herman of Alaska (died 1836), to minister to the Native Americans.

After 1872, the cathedral came under the control of the Diocese of Alaska.

It is the westernmost municipality in the United States and the southernmost city in Alaska.

Barrow has the lowest average temperatures of cities in Alaska.

Homer is a city located in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

Houston is a city in Matanuska Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.

Soldotna is a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, in the U.S. State of Alaska.

Wasilla is a city in Matanuska Susitna Borough, United States and the sixth largest city in Alaska.

Whittier is a city in the Valdez Cordova Census Area, in the U.S. state of Alaska.

In 1900, Skagway was incorporated as the first city in the Alaska Territory.

A recording district is a mechanism for administration of the public record in Alaska.

LIDLIP also raised the issue of self determination in connection with the peoples of Alaska and Hawaii.

The highest and lowest recorded temperatures in Alaska are both in the Interior.

Alaska also has the largest Quaker population (by percentage) of any state.

North Slope Borough is a borough located largely in the North Slope region of the U.S. state of Alaska.

The island has been part of the United States since the Alaska Purchase of 1867.

Geography Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined.

Cost of living The cost of goods in Alaska has long been higher than in the contiguous 48 states.

Colonies The first Russian colony in Alaska was founded in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov.

Thus all of Russia is to the west of the IDL and all of the USA to the east.

In the New World in the 1880s 90s he explored Canada and Newfoundland and helped map uncharted areas of Alaska.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough is a borough located in the state of Alaska.

Mainland expansion was completed by the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.

With over 100,000 glaciers, Alaska has half of all in the world.

Some of the highest and lowest temperatures in Alaska occur around the area near Fairbanks.

Alaska also offers some of the highest hydroelectric power potential in the country from its numerous rivers.

In Prince William Sound, Port Valdez suffered a massive underwater landslide, resulting in the deaths of 30 people between the collapse of the Valdez city harbor and docks, and inside the ship that was docked there at the time.

The 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, Into The Wild , was partially filmed and set in Alaska.

Johnston's first experience with active volcanoes was a geophysical survey of Mount Augustine in Alaska in 1975.

It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the third highest peak in the United States.

Marketing of the gas awaits the completion of the Alaska gas pipeline to carry it to the lower 48 states.

The state of Alaska is located in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid Pacific.

It is a perennial that is found throughout Alaska, from Hyder to the Arctic Coast, and west to the Aleutians.

Small isolated groups of hunter gatherers migrated alongside herds of large herbivores far into Alaska.