ALASKA TRIVIA
Nickname: The Last Frontier
State Flower: Forget-me-not
Capital: Juneau
Purchased from Russia in 1867
Organized as a Territory in 1912
State's pop. is 609,311
Median Age of pop. is 31.8
Largest City is Anchorage
Highest temp: 100º F
Lowest temp: -80º F
Snowfall: 974.5 inches at Thompson Pass in 1952-1953
Tallest Mountain in North America is Mt. McKinley (20,320 ft.)
Farthest Northern City: Barrow (350 miles north of the Arctic Circle)
America's biggest earthquake occurred March 27, 1964, Good Friday
(measuring 9.2 on Richter scale)
Second greatest tide range in N. America; 38.9 ft. in Upper Cook Inlet
World's largest producer of Zinc
100,000 glaciers in Alaska measuring about 29,000 sq. miles;
about 5% of the state is covered by glaciers,
Land Area is 570,373.6 sq.miles (365,000,000 acres)
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