Alaska

Alaska is a peninsula in the north of the USA.
It is the biggest state in the USA.
Alaska was bought by the USA for 7,2 million Dollars from the Russian property on the 18th October 1867.
It has a total area of 1,593,438 square kilometres.
2,240 km from north to south and about 3,550 km from east to west.
The number of inhabitants is 587,000.
The capital is Juneau.
The biggest city is Anchorage with 226,000 inhabitants.
In Alaska are living Aleuts, Inuit and Indians.
In the north of Alaska are the mountains of the Brook Range.
The longest river is the Yukon.
It is 3,700 kilometres long
and flows westward through the state into the Bering Sea.
In Alaska are 15 national parks.
Denali, the 'High One', is the name the Indians gave the highest mountain of North America Mount McKinley.
It is 6194 meters high.
But Denali is also the name of the huge national park around that mountain.
In this national park exist Wolfs, Caribous, Mosses, Grizzly bears and the ocean Whales.
Whale hunting is an old Inuit tradition.
In Alaska there are long winters.
The summers are short.
There is no daylight in Barrow for 67 days, from the 18th November to the 24th January.
But the sun shines day and night for 84 days, from the 10th May to the 2nd August.
In June they celebrate Nalukataq with their family and friends.
They eat the whale meat, talk, sing, dance and do Inuit sports.
Inuits have harpoons and snowmobiles.