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Alaska
Picture source: Alaska Volcano Observatory in January 2006
The population of the Municipality of Anchorage was estimated 301,000 residents
in 2013.
Russian presence in south-central Alaska was well established in the 19th
century.
In 1867, U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward brokered a deal to
purchase Alaska from Imperial Russia
for $7.2 million (about two cents an acre). His political rivals lampooned
the deal as Seward's folly."
By 1888, gold was discovered along Turnagain Arm.
The US$ 7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska ($119 million in 2014
dollars)
The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation in 1867
The cost of goods in Alaska has long been higher than in the contiguous
48 states. Federal government
employees, particularly United States Postal Service workers and active-duty
military members, receive
a Cost of Living Allowance usually set at 25% of base pay because, while
the cost of living has gone down,
it is still one of the highest in the country.
Source: Wikipedia
Turnagain Arm mud-flats, Anchorage
Girdwood resort, south to Anchorage, 61 km southeast of Anchorage
Mt. McKinley in white veil and Chulitna River
Mount McKinley viewed from Eielson Visitor Center.
Denali is decorated with colors of autumn.
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
 
The pipeline conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, to Valdez.
 
Opponents of the pipeline asserted the presence of the pipeline would interfere
with the caribou.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System includes the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline,
11 pump stations, several hundred
miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. It is one of
the world's largest pipeline systems. It is
commonly called the Alaska pipeline, but those terms technically apply
only to the 1,287 km of the pipeline with
the diameter of 122 cm that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, to Valdez, Alaska.
The task of building the pipeline had to address a wide range of difficulties,
stemming mainly from the extreme cold
and the difficult, isolated terrain. The construction of the pipeline was
one of the first large-scale projects to deal
with problems caused by permafrost, and special construction techniques
had to be developed to cope with the
frozen ground.
Source: Wikipedia
 
The price of gasoline in Alaska: $ 3.839/Gallon - $ 4.479/Gallon
= $ 1.01/Liter - $ 1.18/Liter
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The photographs were taken in September 2014, and article was written in
September 2014,
by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
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