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editor — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:12:00 +0000

THE ALASKA MARINE HIGHWAY Unique to Alaska is the long-route ferry service provided by the state, the Alaska Marine Highway. Residents of the little towns served by the Highway see nothing strange about its name. To them it is the only surface transportation out of their communities. The $30 million deficit experienced by the Highway each year is looked upon by those served as an expense to be borne by the state the same as paid for road construction and maintenance. A fleet of nine large ferryliners, each costing about $50 million, transports passengers and vehicles within Southeast Alaska and

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Travel to Alaska

editor — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 05:24:00 +0000

Tourism is a major Alaska industry, one that the State Division of Tourism officials feel will flourish and fill in the economic gap left as the supply of oil diminishes. Alaska’s natural beauty will remain even though its salmon and haddock come and go and the price of timber rises and falls. In 1981, 660,000 visitors came to Alaska mostly to revel in its natural beauty and to experience America’s last frontiers. They left something like $434 million while cruising, traveling the few Alaskan highways, fishing, hunting, and viewing scenery as spectacular or more so than any in the world.

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Alaska Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:36:00 +0000

The original totem poles were commissioned by families or chiefs to commemorate an event, to make a statement, and sometimes to deride another family who failed an obligation, such as nonpayment of a debt. The old photographs showed numbers of totem poles standing before waterside villages facing toward the sea, the first thing seen by a visitor. Clan symbols like the raven, the eagle, and the frog stare out from the poles. Some poles told a story. Bold in color and striking in design, the totem pole message is read from the top down. Today the totem pole is a

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Alaska Travel Destinations

editor — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:36:00 +0000

Totem poles are the informal Alaskan logo, vestiges of a unique native culture that thrived up until the turn of the century. The boldly carved images tell a story, commemorate an event or send a message. residents take pride in being Alaskans and do not look kindly on transients who come to Alaska only for high wages. Alaska has one popular ski area, Mt. Alyeska Resort. It is on 4000-foot Mt. Alyeska, forty miles south of Anchorage. Since the area gets only a few hours of daylight in mid- winter, several of the slopes are lighted. The resort is owned

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Alaska Guide for Tourist

editor — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:12:00 +0000

With half of Alaska’s population, Anchorage is Alaska’s only real city. In this relatively sophisticated metropolis, a diner can find two truffled chocolates for S3 on the menu in at least one elegant restaurant. On Cook Inlet, the Japanese current spares it the severe winter weather of the interior. Anchorage has eighteen hotels/motels and 118 restaurants. Juneau, the state capital, is a town of nineteen thousand. Fairbanks, the trade and transportation center of the interior, has twenty-six thousand. Ketchikan and Sitka both have about eight thousand residents. Of the several villages and towns served by the Alaska Marine Highway Sitka

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