Anchorage, city (municipality), south-central Alaska, U.S. Lying at the base of the Chugach Mountains, it is a port at the head of Cook Inlet (a bay of the Pacific Ocean). In 1835 Russians established a mission across the inlet from the area that constit
I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a youngster in 1984, the second in 1987, and the final time in 2000. Each time, the ride by boat to the terminal edge of the ice where it calves into Prince William Sound, took a bit long...
And for those able to leave the lower 48, Alaska's a sure bet for salmon year round. Hop a plane and fly to Valdez, which boasts an annual salmon derby for men, women, and kids in the last days of summer or early fall. If you're interested in Alaska, you're probably brave enoug...
000 mature individual beluga (Lowry et al., 2017a), which can be divided into 21 recognised stocks; nineteen that are distributed across much of the circumpolar Arctic, and two that are resident in sub-Arctic waters (St. Lawrence Estuary (Quebec, Canada) and Cook Inlet (Alaska, USA) (...