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Did you know?
 “Kooshdaakaa” is the Southeast Alaska name for the half-man, half-animal that others call Bigfoot or Sasquatch. This photograph compares a cast of a 17-inch-long footprint found in Washington state with a size 14 boot.
Photo courtesy of the Bigfoot Museum
 Approximately three-fourths of an iceberg sits under water, as shown in this photograph.
Photo courtesy University of Pennsylvania
 The wingspan of a bald eagle is 6-1/2 to 8 feet.
Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 Alaska’s state bird is the willow ptarmigan.
Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 Alaska’s Bering Sea boasts red, blue and golden king crab. Reds are the largest, with the record female and male weighing 10.5 and 24 pounds, respectively. The 20- to 30-year-old male’s leg span was nearly 5 feet across.
Photo courtesy NOAA
 In 2000, Barb Everingham grew the heaviest cabbage ever grown in Alaska. The state fair winner weighed 105.6 pounds.
Photo courtesy Cornell University
 Caribou bulls, like the one seen here, can weigh from 350-400 pounds and live 8-10 years. Their most important adaptation to winter is the ability to smell lichens beneath the snow.
They are the only member of the deer family in which both males and females grow antlers.
Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 Aurora borealis displays appear in shades of red, yellow, green, blue and violet and are usually brightest in northern latitudes. The aurora is seen in a variety of forms, including patches of light, in the form of streamers, arcs, banks, rays and resembling hanging draperies. The aurora occurs between 35-600 miles above the earth.
Photo courtesy NASA
 The Alaska malamute sled dog is strong and heavily coated. It was developed as a breed by a group of Eskimos named the Malemiuts.
Aunt Phil File Photo
And …
- During the Alaska Gold Rush, it took the average prospector three months to cross the Chilkoot Pass
- About 20,000 people lived in Nome around 1899
- Sitka was known as the “Paris of the Pacific” in the late 1800s
- It’s 8,000 miles from Nome to Washington D.C. by dog sled
- In the early 1900s, Alaska supplied about half the world’s canned salmon
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