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Alaska: North America
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The highest and lowest recorded temperatures in Alaska are both in the Interior. The highest is 100 °F (38 °C) in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915,[10][11] tied with Pahala, Hawaii as the lowest high temperature in the United States.[12][13] The lowest Alaska temperature is −80 °F (-64 °C) in Prospect Creek on January 23, 1971,[10][11] one degree above the lowest temperature recorded in North America (in Snag, Yukon, Canada).[14]
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The traditional ceremony kicked off an evening of festivities celebrating Princess' ties to Alaska and the city of Seattle. The music of hometown favorites HB Radke and the Jet City Swingers set the tone for the black-tie top deck sailaway party, and the dinner that followed featured an array of pacific northwest delicacies, including huckleberries, shellfish, and Copper River salmon. VIP guests were ... treated to a private two-day exhibition of the world's largest carved sapphire, The Millennium Sapphire. The 61,500 carat gemstone was showcased on the Sapphire Princess to add extra "sparkle" to the event.
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Faithful to its title, 360 North is a new full time TV panorama of what's happening in Alaska. Making it 24/7, KTOO-TV, the PBS channel in Juneau (AK) has managed what snowboard hotdoggers only dream about. it's, like, unbelievable!"
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An ongoing effort of the World Energy Project that includes northern Alaska. The Arctic is an area of high resource potential, low data density, difficult and sensitive environmental conditions, and great uncertainty concerning quantity, quality, distribution, and future availability of oil and gas resources. With Minerals Management Service (MMS) collaboration, northern Alaska, both onshore and offshore, will be included in the assessment as an example of one of the better-known resource-rich basins of the Arctic.
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