15 of the Most Epic Scale Places in Alaska

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Alice Latham
Nov 7, 2015

ALASKA is the USA’s largest state and home to Denali, the highest peak in North America. To put this into perspective, the state has a longer coastline than all the other US states combined with a land area of 663,268 square miles. Alaska is huge in size but relatively unpopulated. With around half its population (735,000 people) living in the Anchorage area, that leaves a hell of a lot of uninhabited and remote wilderness. In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Russia for a paltry 7 million dollars… The steal of the millennium in my opinion.

1. The bears at Beaufort Sea

2. Ice caves

3. The glaciers

4. The Aurora

5. The sunsets

Winter wonderland by Stefan Gottermann on 500px.com

6. Kayaking in Valdez

7. Flight from Unalakleet to Anchorage

8. Turnagain Arm

9. Denali

10. Road to Denali

11. Katmai National Park

12. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

13. Driving away from Wrangell-St Elias

14. Chugach Mountains

Stormy Peaks by Dirk Collins on 500px.com

15. Aleutian Islands

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