These Alaska Fun Facts Are Only The Start

Do you know these Alaska fun facts? Could you ever live in a place that didn’t have a sunrise and a sunset everyday?

• Barrow is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun due to its light situation. After the sun rises on May 10, it’s about three months before it sets. When it finally sets on the night of November 18th, there’s no sunrise for about two months. This is the most wild of the Alaska fun facts. 
• About ? of Alaska’s land is in the Arctic Circle.
• Alaska has the lowest recorded temperature in the United States. It was -80 degrees in 1971 in Prospect Creek Camp. 
• Alaska was part of the Gold Rush during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. Miners traded potatoes for gold because they were so highly valued for their vitamin C.
• Alaska has World War II history being the only place that had fighting on American soil.
• The first official Russian colony was founded on Kodiak Island in 1784 in Alaska.
• Alaska was bought by the United States from Russia for 7.2 million in a deal that was originally called Seward’s Folly. 
• Alaska Day is celebrated each October 18th to commemorate the official transfer of the territory. Did you know this Alaska fun facts.
• Anchorage has a spot on Upper Huffman Road called Gravity Hill. The laws of physics don’t seem to apply, as a car in neutral at the bottom of the hill will mysteriously roll up the hill and not down it.
• The word Alaska is all typed on the same row on the keyboard. 
• Growing giant vegetables in Alaska isn’t rare and in fact, is more so of the norm. A 138.25 pound cabbage was grown in 2012 and there was a turnip that weighed in at 39.3 ounces. 
• Northern lights can be seen from Alaska and in Fairbanks specifically, are seen about 243 nights a year. 
• The highest recorded temperature in Alaska was 100 degrees in Fort Yukon back in 1915.
• The largest salmon ever caught came out of an Alaskan river weighing 97.4 pounds. 
• Alaskan moose can weigh up to 1,600 pounds and a Kodiak bear can be 1,500 pounds.
• Alaska doesn’t have sales tax or individual income tax. This is a big draw for someone that already wanted to move to the state and one of the most interesting Alaska fun facts.
• Seafood is huge for the economy in the state and rural communities have 15% of working-aged people directly employed by the industry. 
• There are the most commercial fisheries in the United States in the state of Alaska.
• Alaska harvests five species of salmon, four of crab, cod, shrimp, halibut, and more.
• The largest oil field in North America is the Prudhoe Bay on the state’s northern coast. 
• There are more than 10,000 active pilots in the state of Alaska. 
• Alaska has four times the number of airports per square mile more than the rest of the United States. Did you know this as one of the Alaska fun facts?
• Seaplanes are popular in Alaska. Lake Hood in Anchorage has the world’s largest and busiest seaplane base. 
• Zinc is the biggest mineral export coming out of Alaska, even if gold is more of what the state is really known for. 

Alaska is a huge state so you better believe there are more fun facts coming! Let me know what you thought of these in the comments!

 

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