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  MSN Encarta - Alaska
Alaska is a rugged, wild, beautiful land of majestic mountains and deep, high-walled fjords; of slow-moving glaciers and still-active volcanoes; of dense, coniferous forests and desolate, treeless islands; of hot springs and icy streams.
Southwestern Alaska is composed of the narrow Alaska Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, and Kodiak Island.
The Alaskan Interior is bounded by the Alaska Range on the south, the Brooks Range on the north, the border with the Yukon Territory on the east, and the Bering Sea on the west.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Alaska
Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation is responsible for the conservation, protection, and improvement of the state’s natural resources and environment and for the control of water, land, and air pollution.
Alaska is a state where the visitor can watch a mass migration of caribou herds across the arctic plains, see the tundra blossom overnight into a riot of color, and observe polar bears and walruses in their native habitat.
Alaska is not divided into counties; the chief units of local government in the mid-1990s were 12 boroughs, 3 unified home-rule municipalities (combining the functions of boroughs and cities), 149 other incorporated communities, and 132 unincorporated communities.
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 Diomede, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diomede is a city located in Nome Census Area, Alaska.
Diomede is located on the western face of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
Diomede is located at 65°45'35" North, 168°55'39" West (65.759836, -168.927592)
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 ALASKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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 Diomede Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Diomede Islands, consisting of the western island Big Diomede or Imaqliq, also known as Ratmanov Island, and the eastern island Little Diomede or Inaliq, are two rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia.
Big Diomede Island is Russia's easternmost point, while Alaska's Aleutian Islands are the furthest-west point of the U.S. Some miles south-east of Little Diomede there is a small uninhabited island called Fairway Rock Island.
The Diomede Islands are often mentioned as likely intermediate stops for a bridge or tunnel spanning the Bering Strait.
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 Alaska state   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alaska has a total area of 1,593,438 sq km (615,230 sq mi), including 45,327 sq km (17,501 sq mi) of inland water and 70,849 sq km (27,355 sq mi) of coastal water over which the state has jurisdiction.
Alaska had a work force of 323,000 people in 2002, of which 36 percent worked in the diverse service sector, including jobs such as working in restaurants or data processing.
Alaska is still the most sparsely populated state, and had just 0.4 person per sq km (1.1 per sq mi) of land in 2002.
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 Diomede School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Diomede, Alaska is located on the western side of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
Diomede boasts some extremely impressive ivory carvers who sell their works in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Diomede also has a post office and a health clinic to take care of basic medical needs.
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 Worldisround - Alaska images: in backcountry & beyond - Alaska photos
Alaska is vast, often uninhabited, staggeringly beautiful, and richly diverse in photographic subject matter.
Nome is Alaska's principal seaport on the Bering Sea.
Alaska is indeed a spectacle for the eye as well as for the lens.
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 Encyclopedia: Diomede, Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nome Census Area is a census area located in the state of Alaska.
Jump to: navigation, search Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Nautical chart of the Bering Strait The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, the eastmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the American continent, approximately 85 km (58 mi...
Jump to: navigation, search Eskimo or Esquimau is a term used for a group of people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding circumpolar Scandinavia and all but the easternmost portions of Russia).
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Alaska is the largest state of the 50 United States.
That is, Alaska's borders are not connected to any of the other states, as about 500 miles of Canadian territory separates Alaska from the nearest state of Washington.
Alaska is really more of a peninsula state, located at the far northwest corner of the North American continent, in spite of maps presented by non-Alaskan weather forecasters and TV newspeople showing Alaska and Hawaii as relatively equally-sized islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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 Canku Ota - NA Nation Links
The Alaska State Council on the Arts, a continuing partnership between the public and private sectors, champions an enriched atmosphere for lifelong participation in Alaska's rich artistic diversity.
Eklutna, Inc. an Alaska Native Corporation, established Eklutna Historical Park in 1990 to preserve the heritage and traditions of the Athabascan people, and to portray the rapidly disappearing lifestyles of the Dena'ina Athabascan Indians in Southcentral Alaska.
The Inupiat Heritage Center in Barrow, Alaska was designated an affiliated area of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts to ensure that the contributions of Alaska Natives to the history of whaling is recognized.
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 PBS - Harriman: Little Diomede
Little Diomede is flat-topped, steep-sided and very isolated by its location, by rough seas, and by the persistent fog that shrouds the island during the warmer months.
The dreariest towns I ever beheld &endash; the tops of the islands in gloomy storm clouds, snow to the water's edge, and blocks of rugged ice for a fringe; then the fl water dashing against the ice; the gray sleety sky, the screaming water birds, the howling wind, and the blue gathering sludge!
All residents were removed to the mainland, and any Little Diomede inhabitants who strayed across the waters too close to Big Diomede where taken captive by the Russians.
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 Canku Ota - Dec.30, 2000 - Diomede
In the middle of the Bering Strait, flanked between east and west, new world and old, lies Little Diomede, which turned out to be one of Santa's first visits.
In place of eight reindeer, an Alaska National Guard Blackhawk helicopter carried Santa and his helpers to what is certainly one of the most unique locations on earth.
For many Diomede youngsters it was their first experience with a real live tree.
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 Diomede, Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Diomede is located on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
Diomede is located at 65°45'35" North 168°55'39" (65.759836 -168.927592)
Out of the total people in poverty 33.8% are under the age 18 and 44.4% are 65 or older.
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 Diomede Alaska Resource Guide, City or community of Diomede, Alaska Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
The distance from Diomede to Washington DC is 4365 miles.
The distance to the Alaska state capital is 1305 miles.
Diomede is positioned 65.77 degrees north of the equator and 168.91 degrees west of the prime meridian.
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 S. Berliner, III's Bering Strait Tunnel Page
It was sort of a surprise to find that the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities had a plan already put together to run a road from near Bettles to Nome, going north of the Nulato Hills.
The issue of earthquakes on the Alaska side of the rail tunnel seems to be mostly limited in scope to the areas north of the Alaska Range.
The same elements that built the Alps and the Himalayas also built the Alaska Range; namely the collision of the Pacific and North American plates has pushed up a rather tall series of mountains over the aeons and transverse faults divide the region around Fairbanks where different rock units are displaced at differing speeds.
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 143 min   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 143rd Regular Session of the Bering Strait School District Board of Education was called to order in Diomede, Alaska on Monday, April 3, 2000 at 2:50 p.m.
In accordance with that directive, an RFP was sent in early February to all accounting firms that currently audit school districts in the state of Alaska.
Focus: Title I, Part C (Migrant Education), is a supplemental program especially designed to meet the needs of migrant children who (at times) are educationally deprived due to a lack of continuity in their educational services.
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 Flower Delivery Diomede AK Alaska |Order Diomede Flowers Online | Online Florist | Flower Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Michael Palin Full Circle Region 1
he start of the 50,000 mile circle was the American island of Little Diomede in the the middle of the Bering Strait - the stretch of water that separates Russia from the USA.
In the winter it is frozen over and its possible to walk the land bridge between these two superpower nations.
This scene was, again, in Nome, Alaska when MP took a limo to the airport.
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 Palin's Travels: Little Diomede, Alaska, USA, Full Circle, Day 1
The rock I am sitting on is called Little Diomede Island and it is the most extreme north-westerly possession of the United States of America.
It lies just south of the Arctic Circle at a latitude of 65.40° and is separated from the Russian territory of Big Diomede Island by a narrow, racing, two-and-a-quarter-mile channel.
A few thousand years ago, before the end of the Ice Age, Diomede was part of a huge land bridge, across which, many scientists now believe, came the first human inhabitants of the Americas.
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 ALIAS: Little Diomede, Alaska
Diomede is located on the west coast of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Straits,
It is only 2.5 miles from Big Diomede Island, Russia, and the international boundary lies between the two islands.
Lyn Gualtieri, of the Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, has published research on the geology of Little Diomede Island.
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 Corporate charter of the Native village of Diomede Alaska : a machine readable transcription.
Corporate charter of the Native village of Diomede Alaska : a machine readable transcription.
This Charter is hereby approved and submitted to the group of Eskimos having a common bond of residence in the Village of Diomede, Alaska, to be voted on in an election called and held under the Instructions of the Secretary of the Interior.
The Charter shall be deemed issued when a petition for a Charter, signed by one-third of the adult Eskimos, has been received by an authorized representative of the Department of the Interior.
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 Diomede School - Diomede, Alaska / AK - school information
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