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South Central Alaska Beard and Moustache Club |
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Alaska Fun Facts and Trivia |
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You are listening to the Alaska State Flag Song. |
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Alaska State Flag Alaska adopted the flag for official state use in 1959. The blue field represents the sky, the sea, and mountain lakes, as well as Alaska's wildflowers. Emblazoned on the flag are eight gold stars: seven from the constellation Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper. The eighth being the North Star, representing the northern most state. Alaska's flag was designed in 1926 by a 13-year-old Native American boy, Bennie Benson, from the village of Chignik. Bennie received a 1,000-dollar scholarship and a watch for his winning entry in the flag design contest. |
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Alaskan Trivia: Alaskas' coast line is 33,000 miles long = 53,108.352 kilometers compared to the coast line of England which has 7,946 miles = 12,787.8474 kilometers. Alaska is 1.53 million square kilometers and is the largest state in the Union., and it is 4 1/2 times the size of Germany. Mountains: 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the United States are located in Alaska. Alaska is the United State's largest state and is over twice the size of Texas. Measuring from north to south the state is approximately 1,400 miles long and measuring from east to west it is 2,700 miles wide. The state's largest city is Anchorage; the second largest is Fairbanks. Outsiders first discovered Alaska in 1741 when Danish explorer Vitus Jonassen Bering sighted it on a voyage from Siberia. The largest halibut ever caught while sport fishing was 459 lbs. in Unalaska Bay. The largest brown bear ever weighed in Alaska was shot while raiding a meat cache near the Ugashik Lakes on the Peninsula. He weighed over 1600 pounds. Largest King salmon ever caught in Alaska 97.25 caught in 1985 in the Kenai River |
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Click her to learn about : Alaska History. |
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Click here to learn Alaska's State Symbols. |
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The New AK License Plate celebrating 50 years of Statehood in 2008. Sample plates can be ordered from DMV. |
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