Alaska - a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union; "Alaska is the largest state in the United States"Iditarod Trail - a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome Denali National Park - a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault Kobuk Valley National Park - a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites Anchorage - a city in south central Alaska; "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska" Nome - a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century Sitka - a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906 Valdez - a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world Alaska Peninsula - a peninsula in southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands) Seward Peninsula - a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle Alaska Range - a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley Mount Hubbard, Hubbard - a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high) Kodiak, Kodiak Island - an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784 Prudhoe Bay - a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 |