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1. The first European vessel to reach Alaska is generally held to be the St. Gabriel under the authority of the surveyor M. S. Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fyodorov on August 21, 1732, during an expedition of Siberian cossak A. F. Shestakov and Belorussian explorer Dmitry Pavlutsky (1729–1735).
2. The name "Alaska" (Russian: Аляска, tr. Alyaska) was introduced in the Russian colonial period when it was used to refer to the peninsula. It was derived from an Aleut, or Unangam idiom, which figuratively refers to the mainland of Alaska. Literally, it means object to which the action of the sea is directed.
3. The Russians never fully colonized Alaska, and the colony was never very profitable. Evidence of Russian settlement in names and churches survive throughout southeast Alaska. William H. Seward, the United States Secretary of State, negotiated the Alaska Purchase. In 1867 United States Secretary of State William H. Seward offered Russia $7,200,000, or two cents per acre, for Alaska.
4. In 1942 Japan invaded the Aleutian Islands, which started the One Thousand Mile War, the first battle fought on American soil since the Civil War. During World War II, the Aleutian Islands Campaign focused on the three outer Aleutian Islands that were invaded by Japanese troops and occupied between June 1942 and August 1943. During the occupation, one Alaskan civilian was killed by Japanese troops and nearly fifty were interned in Japan, where about half of them died.
5. Alaska is the United States’ largest state and is over twice the size of Texas. Measuring from north to south the state is approximately 2250 km long and measuring from east to west it is 4350 km wide. Alaska is a geographical marvel. When a scale map of Alaska is superimposed on a map of the 48 lower states, Alaska extends from coast to coast. Nearly one-third of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle.
6. The City and Borough of Juneau is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka. It needs to be said that Anchorage is the largest city, nearly 10 times larger than Juneau.
7. Alaska has some of the greatest landscapes on Earth. It is covered by forests, mountains, 3 million lakes, volcanoes, and about half of all the glaciers in the world. Its wildlife is abundant: brown bears, black bears, polar bears, bisons, moose, whales, bald eagles and many more species all inhabit the area.
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More information about the video content bellow:
1. The first European vessel to reach Alaska is generally held to be the St. Gabriel under the authority of the surveyor M. S. Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fyodorov on August 21, 1732, during an expedition of Siberian cossak A. F. Shestakov and Belorussian explorer Dmitry Pavlutsky (1729–1735).
2. The name "Alaska" (Russian: Аляска, tr. Alyaska) was introduced in the Russian colonial period when it was used to refer to the peninsula. It was derived from an Aleut, or Unangam idiom, which figuratively refers to the mainland of Alaska. Literally, it means object to which the action of the sea is directed.
3. The Russians never fully colonized Alaska, and the colony was never very profitable. Evidence of Russian settlement in names and churches survive throughout southeast Alaska. William H. Seward, the United States Secretary of State, negotiated the Alaska Purchase. In 1867 United States Secretary of State William H. Seward offered Russia $7,200,000, or two cents per acre, for Alaska.
4. In 1942 Japan invaded the Aleutian Islands, which started the One Thousand Mile War, the first battle fought on American soil since the Civil War. During World War II, the Aleutian Islands Campaign focused on the three outer Aleutian Islands that were invaded by Japanese troops and occupied between June 1942 and August 1943. During the occupation, one Alaskan civilian was killed by Japanese troops and nearly fifty were interned in Japan, where about half of them died.
5. Alaska is the United States’ largest state and is over twice the size of Texas. Measuring from north to south the state is approximately 2250 km long and measuring from east to west it is 4350 km wide. Alaska is a geographical marvel. When a scale map of Alaska is superimposed on a map of the 48 lower states, Alaska extends from coast to coast. Nearly one-third of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle.
6. The City and Borough of Juneau is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka. It needs to be said that Anchorage is the largest city, nearly 10 times larger than Juneau.
7. Alaska has some of the greatest landscapes on Earth. It is covered by forests, mountains, 3 million lakes, volcanoes, and about half of all the glaciers in the world. Its wildlife is abundant: brown bears, black bears, polar bears, bisons, moose, whales, bald eagles and many more species all inhabit the area.
More Info:
http://www.50states.com/facts/alaska.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska
Music:
Let’s Chill – Always Dreaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mlGLGXXSOw
https://www.letschill.ca
https://facebook.com/letschillcanada
Images:
https://public-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/b7/6b/b76b1a3c-c16b-4de6-b698-21027cd40906/sqj_1607_alaska_russia_02.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Welcome_to_Alaska_sign_on_the_Yukon_Highway.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aTXILY2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Flickr_-_USCapitol_-_Alaskan_Purchase%2C_1867.jpg
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_11/w38_KiskaInv.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Downtown_Juneau_and_Douglas_Island.jpg/1200px-Downtown_Juneau_and_Douglas_Island.jpg
http://wallup.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/10/338698-nature-landscape-forest-mountains-lake-waterfall-snowy_peak-trees-summer-Alaska.jpg
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