The "Morning Mountain" Report June 29 8:35 AM

Valdez                           Wilmington
Sunrise   4:09 AM          6:02 AM
Sunset   11:24 PM          8:27 PM

Dreary day for The Kite Festival

More Facts about Alaska

General
We have areas that get

• 24 hours of daylight
• 24 hours of night
• 3 million lakes

How big are we? Very big!

• 586,400 Square Miles
• We are 2 times the size of Texas
• We have 29 volcanoes
• 33,000 miles of coastline!
• 1,400 miles North to South
• 2,700 miles East to West
• Over 1/2 the world's Glaciers
• 55 miles east of Russia
• We are the only state to have coastlines on three different seas.
  Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.

Records

• Record high temperature: 1915 +100 oF
• Record low temperature: Tanana -78 oF
• High tides of 37 feet
• Snow: 24 hours; 62 inches
  1 year; 974 inches (Thompson Alaska, near Valdez) (known locally as The Pass)

Mountains

• Mount Denali: 20,320 feet (Tallest in North America)

• Mount Elias: 18,008 feet
  Foraker - 17,400 feet
  Bona - 16,500 feet
  Blackburn - 16,390 feet
  Sanford - 16,237 feet
  Vancouver - 15,700 feet
  Churchhill - 15,638 feet
  Fairweather - 15,300 feet
  Hubbard - 15,015 feet
  Bear - 14,831

Islands (largest)

• Kodiak - 3,588 square miles
• Prince of Wales - 2,770 square miles
• Chichagof - 2,062 square miles

Lakes (largest)

• Iliamna - 1,000 square miles
• Becharof - 458 square miles
• Teshekpuk - 315 square miles
• Naknek - 242 square miles

Longest River

• Yukon - Total of 2,300 miles, 1,875 in Alaska

Wildlife

• Kodiak Bear; 1,400 pounds, 11 feet tall
• Polar Bear; 1,400 pounds, 11 feet tall
• Grizzly Bear (Brown Bear); 800 pounds, 9 feet tall
• Moose; 1,350 pounds, 5 feet high to shoulder
  Antlers span; 72 inches

History

• Purchased from Russia in 1867 for under 2 cents an acre.