2942 UNITED STATES (Alaska) - "Try Again" wreck boat in Homer

Located on the shore of Kachemak Bay on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula, and long known as The "Halibut Fishing Capital of the World", Homer is a little city with 2,235 households, where live 1,296 families (2010). In the picture is the wreck of the boat "Try Again", surprised in 1980's.

1341, 2814 UNITED STATES (Alaska) - Alaska map

2814 Alaska map

Posted on 23.11.2014, 12.11.2016
When a massive, snow-covered terrain, known as Alaska, was purchased from Russia for $7.2 million dollars in 1867, no one imagined the great contributions this icy land would make to America. Indeed, many Americans thought the land to be barren and desolate... completely worthless. However, Alaska has since proven to be bountiful in breathtaking scenery, abundant wildlife, and rich natural resources. In fact, located at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska is what is believed to be North America's largest oil reserve.

1341 The celebration of 25 years
of Alaska's statehood

In addition, Alaska's fishing waters - rich in salmon, halibut and king crab - provide some of the most plentiful harvests anywhere in America. Indeed, this frigid land proved to be such a great asset to America, that on January 3, 1959, Alaska entered the Union as the 49th state - the first new state in forty-seven years. Interestingly, Alaska is known as America's Last Frontier, because much of the land has yet to be explored or settled. It is also the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States.

2105 UNITED STATES (Alaska) / CANADA (Yukon) - White Pass and Yukon Route

2105 White Pass and Yukon Route - A diesel locomotive
and the steam locomotive No. 73.

The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) is a Canadian and U.S. Class II 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon (Canada). It is an isolated system, which has no direct connection to any other railroad. Equipment, freight and passengers are ferried by ship through the Port of Skagway, and via road through a few of the stops along its route.

1968 UNITED STATES (Alaska) - Ketchikan

 

Located on Revillagigedo Island, so named in 1793 by Captain George Vancouver, Ketchikan is the southeasternmost city in Alaska, and, even if has only 8,050 inhabitants, is the sixth-most populous city in the state. Ketchikan's economy is based upon government services, tourism and commercial fishing. Civic boosters have dubbed the community the "Salmon Capital of the World." It has the world's largest collection of standing totem poles, found throughout the city and at four major locations.

1505 UNITED STATES (Alaska) - Arctic Mariner returning to Dutch Harbor

The Bering Sea, located between Alaska, Bering Strait, Russia's Far East, Kamchatka Peninsula, Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, is world renowned for its enormously productive and profitable fisheries. On the U.S. side, commercial fisheries catch approximately $1 billion worth of seafood annually. A top fishing port is Dutch Harbor, located on Amaknak Island in Unalaska. For 22 consecutive years, it is the number one fishing port in United States for seafood landings, and its docks are busy much of the year, landing more than 515 million pounds of fish and shellfish in 2010. Arctic Mariner is a fishing vessel by 390 tons, built in 1980 on Nichols Bros Boat Builders from Freeland (Washington). Its home port is Seattle.