Because Alaska is so far north and so cold,Europeans did not come there until 1741. Russian fur traders were among the first.Europeans to come to Alaska . Alaska even belonged to Russia for a while . By the 1800s ,American fur traders wer...
probably crossing Bering Strait, named for Vitus Bering, the Danish sea captain who discovered Alaska on his voyage for Russia in 1741.The Eskimos are the state's earliest known inhabitants Russian fur traders established settlements but, by the time Alaska was sold to the United States, most ...
Precious items of the Yupik people, long frozen in time, are emerging as temperatures rise. Now the rush is on to save them.
/He was a real multilingual boy.由第三 中的“He also learned to speak Russian, English, French and Spanish. He was a real multilingual boy and he was so proud of it."可知,Pooky 因为会说很多 种语言而骄傲。 3. How Pooky stole words. Pooky enjoyed stealing their words 和第四段的内容...
Toronto was later dropped in 1992 and the Russian destinations were discontinued in 1998.[12][28] 【参考译文】1991年,阿拉斯加航空公司增加了多条航线。在俄罗斯远东地区,它增加了马加丹和哈巴罗夫斯克等城市,以及飞往多伦多(其首个加拿大城市和落基山脉以东的首个城市)的航班。不过,多伦多航线在1992年被取消,...
When Russian Emperor Alexander II needed money and decided to sell Alaska to the United States in 1867, fur was one of the future state's known valuables. Most of the world's northern fur seals live in the eastern Bering Sea area. They live in the ocean from November to June and ...
(seeKatmai National Park and Preserve). Explored in 1763 by Russian fur trader Stepan Glotov, the island was the scene of the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska, founded by Grigori Shelekhov, a fur trader, on Three Saints Bay in 1784. The settlement was moved to Kodiak village ...
Russian-American telegraph.The Russians feared that if they did not sell Russian North America,it would be taken from them by the westward expansion of the United States and Canada.They tried to play one potential purchaser off against the other to start a bidding war,but this was largely ...
The guides told troopers they used avalanche beacons to identify an area where the skiers were likely buried. The beacons estimated the missing skiers to be somewhere between 40 and 100 feet under the snowpack. An avalanche swept away and buried skiers deep in Alaska's backcountry on Tuesday,...
Lawrence Island and Russia’s Chukotskiy (Chukchi) Peninsula and to the southwest, between Attu Island, the westernmost island of the Alaskan Aleutian chain, and the Russian Komandor Islands. The boundary leaves a patch of international waters, known as the “Doughnut Hole,” in the Bering ...