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Lituya Mountain (Alaska, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
North America (search for this): entry alaska
Alaska,
An unorganized Territory of the United States, formerly known as Russian America ; occupying the region of the extreme northwestern portion of North America; lying north of the parallel of lat. 50° 40″ N., and west of the meridian of long.
140° W.: also including many islands lying off the coast: area, as far as determined in 1900, 531,000 square miles; population, according to revised census report of 1890, 32,052; estimated population in 1899, about 40,000: seat of administration, Sitka.
The Russians acquired possession of this Territory by right of discovery by Vitus Bering, in 1741.
He discovered the crowning peak of the Alaska mountains, Mount St. Elias, on July 18.
That mountain rises to a height of 18,024 feet above the sea. Other notable altitudes, as ascertained by the United States Meteorological Survey and announced in 1900, are: Blackburn Mountain, 12,500 feet; Black Mountain, 12,500 feet; Cook Mountain, 13,750 feet; Crillon Mountain, 15,900 feet; Drum Moun
Clarendon, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
Blackburn Mountain (Alabama, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
Saint Michael (Alaska, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
Tillman Mountain (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
Alaska (Alaska, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
Alaska,
An unorganized Territory of the United States, formerly known as Russian America ; occupying the region of the extreme northwestern portion of North AmericRussian America ; occupying the region of the extreme northwestern portion of North America; lying north of the parallel of lat. 50° 40″ N., and west of the meridian of long.
140° W.: also including many islands lying off the coast: area, as far as deter richest fur-seal fishing in the world.
Sitka, or New Archangel, the capital of Alaska, is the oldest settlement.
It was founded by Russian fur-traders in the ninete eed upon by erection of posts, stakes, or other appropriate temporary marks.
Alaska in transition.
After the United States obtained possession of the Territory arkable increase in the supply of food fishes.
Large as was the knowledge of Alaska and its manifold interests and resources that had been acquired up to 1900, muc vels.
At the end of that year the first section of the first railroad built in Alaska was completed.
This was the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, projected to extend
Hayes Mountain (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry alaska
John G. Brady (search for this): entry alaska
Russian (search for this): entry alaska