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Regions of Alaska

Regions of Alaska. By: Aidan Bobbitt. Arctic. Everything north of Seward Peninsula Major cities: Nome, Kotzebue, Point Hope, Barrow, Prudhoe Bay No sun for six months. People. Population: 10,500 Indigenous people: Inupiat Major industry: petrolium , coal, and natural gas extraction.

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Regions of Alaska

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  1. Regions of Alaska By: Aidan Bobbitt

  2. Arctic • Everything north of Seward Peninsula • Major cities: Nome, Kotzebue, Point Hope, Barrow, Prudhoe Bay • No sun for six months

  3. People • Population: 10,500 • Indigenous people: Inupiat • Major industry: petrolium, coal, and natural gas extraction

  4. Land • Permafrost • Low percipitation • Low temperature • Major features: Brooks Range, Arctic Ocean, oil fields

  5. Interior • Below arctic down to Alaska Range • Major Cities: Fairbanks, Fort Yukon, Bethel • Once the frontier of the famed gold rush

  6. People • Population: 100,000 • Indigenous people: Athabaskans • Major industry: mineral and oil resources

  7. Land • Short summer, long winter • -60 to 80 degree weather • 24 inches of rainfall • Major features: Mt. McKinley, Yukon river

  8. Southwest • Everything west of Kodiak up to the edge of the Interior region • Major cities: Unalaska, Kodiak, Bristol Bay • At one point home to “minivolcanoes” known as fumaroles

  9. People • Population: 53,000 • Indigenous people: Aleuts, Koniag and Yupik Eskimos • Major Industry: Commercial Fishing

  10. Land • High winds and precipitation • Many islands • Major land features: Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, Bristol Bay

  11. Southcentral • From southwestern region to the first border with Canada • Major Cities: Anchorage, Seward, Valdez • Home to the largest contiguous wetlands in the western hemisphere

  12. People • Over half the population of Alaska • Major Industry: Transportation

  13. Land • Temperate with high precipitation • Major features: Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, Copper River, glaciers

  14. Southeast • Panhandle of Alaska • Major cities: Skagway, Sitka, Juneau • Over 1,000 named islands

  15. People • Population: 7,000 • Indigenous people: various seafaring tribes • Major industry: Fishing, tourism, and timber

  16. Land • 30-200 inches of snow per year • Glaciers • Rainforests and mild climate • Numerous islands

  17. Arctic Ocean Brooks Range Big Diomede Island Bering Strait Little Diomede Island Seward Peninsula Tanana River Mount McKinley Norton Sound Yukon River St. Lawrence Island Alaska Range Sustina Copper River Chugach Mountains Saint Elias Mountain Kuskokwim River Prince William Sound Kenai Peninsula Cook Inlet Nunivak Island Lake Iliamna Bristol Bay Kodaik Island Alaska Peninsula Pibilof Islands Gulf of Alaska Bering Sea Inside Passage Dixon Entrance

  18. Barrow Arctic Prudhoe Bay Point Hope Kotzebue Nenana Fairbanks Tanana Nome Interior Unalakleet Glennallen Palmer Southwest Anchorage Bethel Valdez Kenai Yakutat Skagway Homer Cordova Southcentral Haines Juneau Sitka Kodiak Petersburg Wrangell Southeast Dutch Harbor Ketchikan Attu

  19. Bibliography • U.S. Gen Net (March, 2012) http://www.usgennet.org/ , USGenNet • Lucid Reverie, Alaska History and Cultural Studies (2012) http://www.akhistorycourse.org/, Alaska Humanities Forum

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