I've always wanted to visit Alaska, up in the northwest extremity of North America.
oh i dont know much about alaska. what is the population in alaska?
Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. United States armed forces bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
In a deal known as Seward's Folly, The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km)
from ships at Golovin and shipped across Golovnin Lagoon and up the Fish and Niukluk Rivers to Council.
When gold was discovered in what is now Nome, much of the mining and shipping activity moved there and Golovin declined in population.
Reindeer herding was introduced in the area about 1900.
Golovin is used as a checkpoint on the Iditarod in Nome, Alaska.
External links.
- [http://library.state.ak.us/asp/edocs/2007/04/ocn123495361.pdf Subsistence wildlife harvests in five northwest Alaska communities, 2001-2003 : results of