Alaska Informative Speech

Alaska is home to many great landmarks and views. In the winter time it is dark all the time and in the summer the sun barely goes down so the best time to plan a trip is in the summer or spring. At Point Barrow the sun remains above the horizon for 84 consecutive days (Alaska 241). Alaska is a very odd state due to its distance away from the equator making the sun hit it at different times of the year. Alaska is a great place to visit and has many things to look at. Alaska was purchased by the united States from russia. Alaska is the largest state in the U.S. and was acquired in 1867 from Russia. It took almost 100 years for Alaska to be the 49th state of the United States. Many people disagreed with the purchase of Alaska but when gold was
Many national parks are hard to get to so a trip must be booked with a float plane to get out where the national parks is. Some parks are more on the grid than others for people that don't have as much time to go deep into the Alaskan wilderness. Weather you would want a paved trail or a deep off the grid trail there's a park that would meet those needs (“Most Popular”). The word “fjord” is a Norwegian term for a glacier-carved inlet. And while you may not hear it invoked often in the lower 48, Alaska has an abundance of beautiful fjords that enchant visitors every year (“Most Popular”).Located on the Alaskan panhandle in the southeastern corner of the state,Glacier Bay is home to some of the most beautiful vistas of active glaciers the state has to offer (“Most Popular”).Elias is on the Alaska-Canada border and is the largest national park in the US. It’s also home to the second largest mountain in America, the breathtaking Mt. St. Elias (“Most Popular”). Many areas in Alaska have been destroyed by human error such as oil spills and cannot be rebuilt. These things are taken for granted till they are gone which is why their are preservations. By creating preservations it protects the biosphere (“Preservation”). Following the establishment of the Yellowstone National Park by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, which was the first national park in the United States, many other countries decided to preserve their areas of natural beauty as well (“Preservation”). These protected areas are off limits to any sort of commercial development and all motorized and even mechanical vehicles (“Preservation”). The law created the National Wilderness Preservation System that initially placed 9.1 million acres under federal protection (“Preservation”). These areas that were made into preservations would probably look good to us now but by making it a preservation it helps save it long