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Alaska, the 49th state, is the largest state, and also the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost! It has the most national parks, the most wildlife, the highest mountains, the longest coastline, and the lowest population density.
Alaska is full of oddities and paradoxes, such as a state-run railroad and a state capital that cannot be reached by highway. The biggest traffic hazard is moose on the road, the main airport has several times been closed by volcanic eruptions, and everybody seems to hunt and fish. All legal residents get annual payments from state petroleum revenues, the nearest countries are Canada and Russia, and the whole state was purchased for less than two cents an acre.
In a word, Alaska is unique.
I have been to Alaska three times, both by land and by sea, and feel that I have barely begun to scratch the surface. I hope to travel to Alaska again in the summer of 2010.
I have divided Alaska into three Virtual Guidebooks: one for the far north and Interior Alaska, including Fairbanks; another for South-Central Alaska including Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula; and a third for Southeastern Alaska featuring the ports, islands and fiords of the Inside Passage.