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The 2020 Alaska mid-air collision occurred at approximately 8:27 a.m. on July 31, 2020, when a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver collided with a Piper PA-12 over the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, approximately two miles northeast of Soldotna Airport, near mile 91.5 of the Sterling Highway. [1] Most of the wreckage landed about 200 yards (180 m) from the ...
Moby Dick is a 12,360 ft (3,770 m) elevation glaciated summit located at the head of the Trident Glacier in the eastern Alaska Range, in Alaska, United States.It is the fourth-highest peak in the Hayes Range, a subset of the Alaska Range. [1]
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaska earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. [2] Across south-central Alaska , ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths.
The Sri Ganesha Temple of Alaska is a Hindu temple in Anchorage, Alaska. Inaugurated in 1999, it is the first Hindu temple in Alaska. [1] Its main deity is Ganesha. The temple also has the sacred images of Durga and Rama. [2] [better source needed]
Tin City (Inupiaq: Tupqaġruk) is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally staffed radar station, in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.It is situated at the mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula.
Kathleen Jo Henry was born December 22, 1988, in Bethel, Alaska. An Alaska Native woman from the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Eek, Henry obtained her GED in 2012, while incarcerated in Alaska's Highland Mountain Correctional Center, a state prison in the Anchorage neighborhood of Eagle River. A divorcee who was single at the time of her death ...
Tony Barnette: 1983: living: Anchorage: MLB player for the Texas Rangers: Laird Barron: 1970: living: Palmer: sled dog racer, writer Rex Beach: 1877: 1949: Nome, Rampart: writer; one of many participants in the Nome Gold Rush and related events who became famous elsewhere (see below for other examples)
Of the 100 most prominent summits of Alaska, only Denali exceeds 4000 meters (13,123 feet) of topographic prominence, six peaks exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet), 26 peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), and 65 peaks are ultra-prominent summits with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence.