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	Alaska Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alaska Range is a mountain range that extends for about 650 km (400 mi) across south-central Alaska, from Iliamna Lake at the SW end to White River in Canada at the SE end.
		The range forms a generally east-west arc with its northernmost part in the center, and from there trending southwest towards the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutians, and trending southeast into the Pacific Coast Ranges.
		The range is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and the Denali fault that runs along the southern edge of the range is responsible for a number of earthquakes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaska_Range (314 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The SE (or Panhandle) is a region of fjords and glaciers and consists of the rugged Boundary Range and the offshore Alexander Archipelago.
		Alaska’s major river, the Yukon, is one of the longest on the continent; it flows across the state from E to W, emptying into the Bering Sea.
		The region of maritime climate comprises the Panhandle, the coast of the Gulf of Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/alaska.html (4275 words)

	Alaska Range: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The alaska peninsula is a peninsula on the mainland of alaska at the beginning of the aleutian islands....
		The gulf of alaska is an arm of the pacific ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of alaska, stretching from the alaska peninsula and kodiak...
		The aleutian range is the mountain range of the alaska peninsula in southeast alaska....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alaska_range.htm (1088 words)

	ALASKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Yukon Territory, on the southeast by British Columbia, on the south by the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean, and on the west by the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, and the Chukchi Sea.
		Alaska may be divided into four geographic regions--the Pacific mountain system of the south, the central region of uplands and lowlands, the BROOKS RANGE (the norther-nmost extension of the Rocky Mountains), and the Arctic coastal plain, or North Slope.
		Alaska's resident population in the 1990 census was 550,043.
	alaskan.com /docs/ak.html (2929 words)

	Alaska Map: Geographical information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Alaska is the largest state in the United States, with an area of 586,000 square miles -- roughly twice that of Texas and roughly one fifth the size of the lower 48 states combined.
		Alaska is part of the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a string of volcanoes that stretches from Asia into North America.
		Alaska is part of the continental United States but is not one of the contiguous 48 states.
	www.alaskascenes.com /alaskamap.html (479 words)

	Alaska Geography - NETSTATE
		To the south is the Gulf of Alaska and Pacific Ocean.
		Extending southwest from the southern Alaska mainland and the Alaska Range, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands are supported by the Aleutian Mountain Range.
		The Brooks Ranges is comprised of glacier-made mountain peaks that rise to 9,000 feet above sea level in the east with lower elevations in the west.
	www.netstate.com /states/geography/ak_geography.htm (862 words)

	Alaska Knowledge
		Alaska has more square miles of land than people, and sixty percent of the population is located in the two urban areas of Anchorage and Fairbanks.
		Other shorter but important ranges are the Chugach Mountains, which form a rim to the central north Gulf of Alaska; and the Wrangell Mountains lying to the northeast of the Chugach Range and south of the Alaska Range.
		Responsibility for issuance of the FA is with the Alaska Aviation Weather Unit (AAWU) in Anchorage.
	www.alaska.faa.gov /enaafss/general_knowledge.htm (2712 words)

	CLIMATE OF ALASKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The two longest mountain ranges are the Brooks Range which separates the Arctic region from the interior and the Alaska-Aleutian Range which extends westward along the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, and northward about 200 miles from the Peninsula, then eastward to Canada.
		TEMPERATURE – Mean annual temperatures in Alaska range from the low 40’s under the maritime influence in the south to a chilly 10 degrees a long the Arctic Slope north of the Brooks Mountain Range.
		WIND – A normal storm track along the Aleutian Island chain, the Alaska Peninsula, and all of the coastal area of the Gulf of Alaska exposes these parts of the state to a large majority of the storms crossing the North Pacific, resulting in a variety of wind problems.
	www.wrcc.dri.edu /narratives/ALASKA.htm (2240 words)

	Alaska Range
		Alaska Range, S central Alaska, rising to the highest mountain in North America, Mt.
		Denali National Park and Preserve - Denali National Park and Preserve, in the Alaska Range, S central Alaska; comprising Denali...
		Alaska: Land and People - Land and People Nearly one fifth the size of the rest of the United States, Alaska is, at the tip...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0803026.html (166 words)

	Mat - Su CVB: Travel Information on Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Alaska
		Alaska Range: Located in the northwest portion of the borough, this range spans 400 miles long and separates the southcentral region from the interior part of the state.
		Chugach Range: Bordering the southeast side of the borough, the Chugach Range forms a crescent that is 300 miles in length.
		Wrangell Mountains/Saint Elias Range: The Wrangell Mountains mark the northern border of the St. Elias Range and although not located in the Mat-Su Valley, its peaks can be seen on the far eastern end of the borough's border toward Glennallen.
	www.alaskavisit.com /visitor_info/index.cfm?action=mountain (298 words)

	Alaska Hunting - Kodiak Alaska and Alaska Range
		Means that an animal is hunted in a sportsmanlike and lawful manner and is not pursued or harassed with or from any mechanical means of transportation.
		Alaska Range - My camps are located on the north slope of the Alaska Range, approximately 160 air miles north of Anchorage.
		Alaska Range - Transportation to my camps are via a Cessna 206 Wheel Plane from Anchorage.
	www.huntalaska.com /hunt.htm (758 words)

	ScienceDaily: Chance Discovery: Alaska Range Glacier Surges
		Alaska's Columbia Glacier Traveling At Record Pace (June 18, 1999) -- Already the fastest moving glacier in the world, the Columbia Glacier in Alaska has increased its speed from 25 meters to 35 meters per day in recent months, according to a University of Colorado at...
		Alaska's Speedy Columbia Glacier On Likely Disintegration Course (December 5, 2000) -- Alaska's Columbia Glacier, heralded as the world's speediest glacier, appears to be on a course to disintegrate and evolve into a spectacular fjord rivaling Glacier Bay in the coming years, according...
		Alaska's Columbia Glacier Continues On Disintegration Course (December 10, 2005) -- Alaska's rapidly disintegrating Columbia Glacier, which has shrunk in length by 9 miles since 1980, has reached the mid-point of its projected retreat, according to a new University of Colorado at...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/03/060316193118.htm (1631 words)

	Alaska Range Humid Tayga--Tundra--Meadow Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Land-surface form--The Alaska Range is a continuation of the Pacific Coast Mountains extending in an arc across the northern Pacific.
		The towering, glaciated peaks of the Wrangell Mountains and of the Alaska Range--which includes Mt. McKinley at 20,320 ft (6,194 m)--typify the ruggedness of the area.
		--Vertical vegetational zonation characterizes the Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains, beginning with dense bottom-land stands of white spruce and cottonwood on the floodplains and low terraces of the Copper and Susitna Rivers.
	www.fs.fed.us /colorimagemap/images/m135.html (352 words)

	Alaska Pacific University Home Page
		A short-term residency in Alaska at the beginning of each enrollment term is a component of APU's distance education offerings.
		RANA is designed for rural Alaska Natives who wish to earn a college degree or certificate in one of several professional fields or continue their education by taking one or two college courses - without having to leave their home communities for long periods of time to study on a university campus.
		Some 30 miles from the highway on the north side of the Alaska Range, the Bus housed Chris McCandless, the subject of Krakauer's book, for over three months before he died mysteriously of starvation and poisoning.
	www.alaskapacific.edu (2231 words)

	Alaska.com \| Interior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Interior, for our purposes, is the area south of the Arctic Circle, north of the Alaska Range, west of Canada and (arbitrarily) east of 154 degrees west longitude.
		Fairbanks has a full range of lodging and restaurants, and most towns along the highways have both a place to stay and a place to eat.
		Interior Alaska's climate is warm, often hot, in the summer.
	www.alaska.com /places/regions/in/story/4524579p-4501259c.html (1950 words)

	Alaska Campgrounds RV Parks, BC & Alberta and Alaska Highway Camping Forum
		A trip up the Alaska highway can be one of the most exciting adventures available to the serious camping enthusiast.
		This road connects Alaska with the Yukon, and was officially recognized in January 1998 for its scenic, natural, and historic qualities, along with abundant wildlife viewing opportunities.
		alaska rv rentals Some ideas for renting a motorhome in Alaska: If you're flying to Alaska or cruising the Inside Passage, upon your arrival, one very viable alternative to the tour bus is to rent a motorhome that comes fully equipped for your vacation in Alaska.
	www.campgrounds-alaska.com (1365 words)

	Alaska Range Peak Carries the Institute Name
		Until scientists from the Geophysical Institute began exploring the Alaska Range in the early 1950s, Institute Peak was a nameless, unclimbed mountain.
		Prompting their decision was the fact that another team of university climbers--including longtime Geophysical Institute scientist T. Neal Davis--had made the first ascent of a mountain in the St. Elias Range and named it "University Peak" after the University of Alaska.
		Wescott was president of the Alaska Alpine Club at the time, and made the first ascents of several Alaska Range mountains with other scientists who were accomplished climbers.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /Quarterly/Q98_1/ak_range.html (539 words)

	So Many Mountain Ranges, So Little Time, Alaska Science Forum
		Ned Rozell, a science writer at the institute, is hiking the trans-Alaska pipeline this summer to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Alaska Science Forum and the pipeline.
		Over millions of years, the rocks of the Chugach Range made a long journey from the south, and the adjacent Wrangell Mountains came from as far away as the tropical belt just north of the equator to settle in Alaska.
		Brooks Range peaks are often whitish and tend to tilt at dramatic angles.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF13/1341.html (803 words)

	Alaska, Information, Links, Parks, Books, Weather, Maps,
		Mount McKinley (20,320 feet) in the Alaska Range is the highest in North America.
		Alaska Extremes: the coldest day ever recorded: minus 80 degree's F at Prospect Creek Camp, Jan.23, 1971.The hottest day: 100 degree's F at Fort Yukon, June 27, 1915.
		Alaska boasts the northernmost (Point Barrow), the easternmost (Semisopochnoi Island in the Aleutians), and the westernmost (Little Diomede Island) points in the United States.
	www.alaskais.com /information.htm (473 words)

	A witness to global warming / Disturbing view from over the Alaska Range
		The most interesting thing I did on a recent 10-day excursion to Alaska was charter a plane to fly around the Alaska Range.
		But for the land glaciers in the Alaska Range there is nothing but persistent warming and increased melting that can explain their pervasive "dying glacier" profiles.
		Whether thinking globally or focusing on the great, dying glaciers of the Alaska Range, the actual magnitude of climate warming reflects a chain reaction of natural events.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/07/ING739LK2T1.DTL (724 words)

	Alaska Brooks Range Arctic National Wildlife Refuge backpacking & river trips with ABEC
		Let ABEC's Alaska Adventures guide you on Brooks Range backpack or raft trips through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or Gates of the Arctic National Park.
		We've also developed a staff of experienced Alaskan guides who will share with you the most spectacular country for backpacking, paddle rafting, kayaking, canoeing, and wildlife photography in the far reaches of the arctic.
		When asked what is so special about the Brooks Range, two words come to mind: wildlife and hiking.
	www.abecalaska.com (373 words)

	Alaska.com \| Denali National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Several hundred thousand people a year visit the Massachusetts-size park to see the pride of the Alaska Range as well as the bears, caribou and wolves that live in the park.
		Denali's climate says "Alaska." Summers are pleasant, but winters are a real challenge.
		The park entrance is 237 highway miles north of Anchorage and 125 miles south of Fairbanks.
	www.alaska.com /places/parks/dena/story/4481360p-4460306c.html (1727 words)

	Alaska Travel Information & Visitors Guide : Alaska Backpacking and Hiking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Talkeetna is located between two spectacular mountain ranges, the Alaska Range and the Talkeetna Mountains.
		Hiking basecamps and moderate to challenging backpack trips in the Brooks Range, Wrangell-St. Elias, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Range, Talkeetna Mts., Arctic Refuge, Gates of the Arctic.
		Adventure Alaska Tours options range from remote wilderness travel and camping, to combination tours staying only in established facilities, with themes including: general sightseeing, natural history, hiking, sea kayaking, canoeing, rafting and dog mushing.
	www.alaskan.com /outdoors/backhike.htm (694 words)

	Chance discovery: Alaska Range glacier surges
		There is evidence that the McGinnis Glacier, a little-known tongue of ice in the central Alaska Range, has surged.
		Truffer says surging is unusual, however the Alaska Range is unique in that there are several glaciers located there that experience this.
		The most well known surging glacier in Alaska is the nearby Black Rapids Glacier, which advanced within a half a mile of the Richardson Highway in 1936.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-03/uoaf-cda031506.php (348 words)

	Finding the Foundation of the Alaska Range, Alaska Science Forum
		One of their goals is to find the foundation of the Alaska Range.
		After installing seismometers about the size of a loaf of bread inside a plastic barrel and snaking a few wires outside to a set of batteries and solar panels, the seismologists test the stations by stomping the ground and looking for a response on a small computer screen.
		At the end of this summer, the scientists should have all stations running in a string across the Alaska Range, in locations ranging from a teacher’s backyard in Talkeetna Junction to a patch of woods near Anderson.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF14/1491 (553 words)

	Alaska Range on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ALASKA RANGE [Alaska Range] S central Alaska, rising to the highest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley (20,320 ft/6,194 m).
		Treeline Responses to Physiographic and Climatic Variation, Alaska Range.
		Lead exposure from indoor firing ranges among students on shooting teams--Alaska, 2002-2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/alaskar1a.asp (291 words)

	Index, Alaska Science Forum
		This Web page is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community.
		Alaska wood frogs hopping in mystery; Ned Rozell.
		McGinnis Glacier surges in Alaska Range; Ned Rozell.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/index.html (487 words)

	Tectonic Development of the Alaska Range Suture Zone
		We are studying a series of late Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary basins in central Alaska that record the evolution of a major suture zone.
		Currently, we are focused on Neogene sedimentary basins located along the north-central flank of the Alaska Range that contain the record of uplift of the highest mountain range in North America, extensive low-sulfur coal reserves, and potential petroleum reservoirs.
		Major goals of this ongoing research include documentation of the long term evolution of sedimentary basins along suture zones; delineation of along strike variations in the uplift history of the Alaska Range; and analysis of the distribution of potentially commercial coals for future exploration.
	www.purdue.edu /eas/basin/ak_suture_zone.html (326 words)

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