3. Land and Climate
- 40˚F in the winter
55˚F in the summer
Cool in the summer
4. State Facts
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State capital: Juneau
State bird: Willow Ptarmigan
State fish : King Salmon
State flower: Forget-me-not
State tree: Sitka spruce
5. Fauna
Bats
Keen’s Myotis, little brown, silver haired
Blackfish, capelin, char
Baled eagle
Foxes
Sea lion
Stripped bass
Golfer
Seals
Puffin
Bears
Beavers
Dear
Elk
Deer
Bison
And a lot more animals
9. Museums
Anaktuvuk
Pass
Anchorage
Anvik
Barrow
Bethel
Central
Copper
Center
Junction
Eagle
Eagle
Fairbanks
And lots more
10. Key cities
Anchorage
Barrow Bethel
Cordova
Dillingham
Eagle River
Fairbanks Fort Wainwright
Haines Homer
Juneau
Kenai Ketchikan Kodiak Kotzebue
Nome North Pole
Palmer Petersburg
Seward Sitka Skagway Soldotna
Unalaska
Valdez
Wasilla Wrangell
11.
Famous people from Alaska
Aleksandr Baranov trader, public official, Russia
Margaret Elizabeth Bell author
Benny Benson designed state flag at age 13, Chignik
Vitus Bering explorer, Denmark
Charles E. Bunnell educator
William A. Egan first state governor
Carl Ben Eielson pioneer pilot
Henry E. Gruennig political leader
B. Frank Heintzleman territorial governor
Walter J. Hickel former governor
Sheldon Jackson educator and missionary, Minaville, NY
Joe Juneau prospector
Austin Lathrop industrialist
Sydney Lawrence painter
John Griffith (Jack) London author, San Francisco, CA
Ray Mala actor
John Muir naturalist, explorer, Scotland
Virgil F. Partch cartoonist
Joe Redington, Sr. sled-dog musher and promoter