Alaska Landmarks
Tourist attractions, famous landmarks and other points of interest in Alaska:
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Created on December 1, 1978, Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce and Western Redcedar dominate the prolific rainforest vegetation. Wildlife in abundance includes both Grizzly and Black Bears, many species of salmon, whales, mountain goats, and deer.
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The Alaska Botanical Garden is a 110 acre (44.5 ha) botanical garden consisting mainly of spruce and birch forest. Only about 10% of the land is developed. The garden opened in 1993 and is open year-round.
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The building is significant for being the original chapter of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, an organization representing native rights in Alaska.
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Originally called the Federal and Territorial Building, the building became the State Capitol when Alaska joined the Union in 1959. Attempts have been made to replace the building with a new Capitol, but a design could not be agreed upon.
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Aniakchak is an extant volcano. The caldera formed during a major eruption in 1645 B.C. The most recent eruption was in 1931. Surprise Lake within the caldera is the source of the Aniakchak River, a National Wild River.
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This remote place is perhaps the least visited unit of the National Park System. The national monument is 137,176 federal acres (555 kmē) and the preserve is 465,603 acres (1,884 kmē) of which 439,863 are federal.
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The entire island is an American Indian reservation composed mainly of Tsimshian and is a cultural crossroads for Tlingit and Haida Natives as well.
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According to the U.S. National Park Service, this is where the first attempts at contact between Europeans and Alaskan natives were made by naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Bering's St. Peter.
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Cape Krusenstern National Monument stretches 70 miles along the Chukchi Sea shoreline. It is made up mainly of a coastal plain, containing large lagoons and rolling hills of limestone. Beach ridges provide evidence of 5000 years of human activity.
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It's the highest mountain in North America and is known as Mount McKinley to most Americans. But its official name in Alaska is Denali, which means "the high one" in the Athabaskan language.
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The harbor has room for 124 boats and is used by commercial and recreational boaters from May to September. The land at Douglas Harbor is lifted by nearly an inch a year due to glacial rebound.
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Fisher caldera is 11 km wide by 18 km long. It is one of at least three volcanoes on Unimak Island that have been active in historical time, with the most recent activity recorded in August of 1830.
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In Room 23, a ghost that hotel employees have dubbed "Mary" appears in the form of ghostly images. An unexplained orb of light sometimes appears in Room 14.
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