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Buldir Island (also sometimes written Buldyr; Aleut: Idmaax; [1] Russian: Булдырь) is a small island in the western Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 4.3 miles (6.9 km) long and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide with an area of 7.4482 square miles (19.291 km 2 ).
The Discovery Center has four main exhibit halls, focusing respectively on the coastal rainforest ecosystem, Alaska Native cultures, other ecosystems of Southeast Alaska, and modern human uses of natural resources. Additionally, there is an exhibit honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights leader, for whom the center's theater is ...
Polk's Nature Discovery Center, Lakeland; Sandoway Discovery Center, Delray Beach; Silver River Museum, Silver Springs; SKELETONS: A Museum of Osteology, Orlando; Tallahassee Museum, Tallahassee; Terramar Visitor Center, Fort Lauderdale; Tree Hill Nature Center, Jacksonville; Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, St ...
Houston is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located roughly 33 miles from downtown Anchorage, though it is a 57-mile drive between the two points. [4] The population was 1,975 at the 2020 census, up from 1,912 in 2000. [5]
The HDEV system was developed by engineers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. [3] High school students also helped design some of the cameras' components, through the High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware program, and teams of students were expected to remotely operate the experiment. [5]
The initial command and control center was placed at Houston High School, about three miles southeast of the ignition point of the fire. As the fire and the response from local, state and federal authorities grew, a unified command structure was established at Creekside Plaza in Wasilla, Alaska, about 12 miles further east. [11]
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Bits and Pieces of Alaskan History: Published over the years in From Ketchikan to Barrow, a department in the Alaska Sportsman and Alaska magazine – v.1. 1935-1959 / v.2. 1960-1974. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0882401560. McBeath, Jerry et al. The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State (2008)