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The five principal meridians of Alaska are the Copper River meridian (established 1905), Fairbanks meridian (adopted 1910), Kateel River meridian (adopted 1956), Seward meridian (adopted 1911) and Umiat meridian (adopted 1956).
In the 1930s, crews from the Civilian Conservation Corps relocated and/or replicated additional totem poles at the house site, restored the house, constructed a small park, and cut a trail from the center of new Kasaan to the park and adjacent cemeteries. [2] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]
The history of Alaska dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period (around 14,000 BC), when foraging groups crossed the Bering land bridge into what is now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers , the area was populated by Alaska Native groups.
North Pole is a small city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.Incorporated in 1953, it is part of the Fairbanks metropolitan statistical area.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 2,243, [2] up from 2,117 in 2010. [3]
Cremorne Point is a harbourside suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia located six kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council. Cremorne Point shares the postcode of 2090 with Cremorne, a separate suburb to the north.
Central is located at (65.533461, -144.695650 The elevation is 942 feet. The Steese Highway (Alaska Route 6) does pass through Central.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 249.4 square miles (646 km 2), of which, 247.9 square miles (642 km 2) of it is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2) of it (0.60%) is water.
South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region and contains most of the state's population. Anchorage and many growing towns, such as Palmer , and Wasilla , lie within this area. Petroleum industrial plants, transportation, tourism , and two military bases form the core of the economy here.
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, [1] and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).