Alaska by Elmer John Bitancor https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw Alaska, northwest of Canada, is the largest and most sparsely populated U.S. state. en-us 2018-03-06 17:35:09 UTC 2023-04-05 01:06:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Geography 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238767143 This is the map of alaska]]> 2018-03-06 17:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238767143 Interesting Facts 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238769930 - Russia controlled most of the area that is now Alaska from the late 1700s until 1867, when it was purchased by U.S. Secretary of State William Seward for $7.2 million, or about two cents an acre. During World War II, the Japanese occupied two Alaskan islands, Attu and Kiska, for 15 months.
- Alaska was a Russian colony from 1744 until the USA bought it in 1867 for $7,200,000. It was made a state in 1959. Hawaii was a kingdom until 1893 and became a republic in 1894. It then ceded itself to the USA in 1898 and became a state in 1959.]]> 2018-03-06 17:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238769930 How Alaska was formed 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238771316 - 150 million years ago, a drifting tectonic plate arrived from Asia. The pressure of this moving mass pushed up the Arctic basin and formed the Brooks Mountains.
- Succeeding plate movements spaced millions of years apart formed the White Mountains to the south and then later the Alaska Range. ]]> 2018-03-06 17:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238771316 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238774202 2018-03-06 17:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238774202 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238774713 2018-03-06 17:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238774713 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238776454 2018-03-06 17:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238776454 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238776762 2018-03-06 17:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238776762 547447 https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238779941 2018-03-06 17:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/547447/gt7za47u64nw/wish/238779941