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The 40 best places to visit in Alaska, best first, each pinned on a real 3D satellite map: Denali, tidewater glaciers, bears fishing at a waterfall, the northern lights, Arctic sand dunes and a town under one roof, plus six road trips that link all 40.
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Chapters:
0:00 #1 Denali National Park
1:05 #2 Kenai Fjords
2:01 #3 Northern lights, Fairbanks
2:50 #4 Glacier Bay
3:47 #5 Brooks Falls, Katmai
4:41 #6 Mendenhall Glacier
5:29 #7 Kennecott
6:22 #8 Matanuska Glacier
7:11 #9 Hubbard Glacier
8:02 #10 Talkeetna and Ruth Glacier
8:48 #11 Kobuk Valley sand dunes
9:37 #12 Valdez
10:32 #13 Whittier
11:20 #14 Gates of the Arctic
12:07 #15 Unalaska and Dutch Harbor
13:00 #16 Turnagain Arm
13:50 #17 Misty Fjords
14:33 #18 Lake Clark
15:17 #19 Skagway
16:10 #20 Homer
16:55 #21 Sitka
17:57 #22 Ketchikan
18:39 #23 Juneau
19:18 #24 Anan Wildlife Observatory
19:55 #25 Chilkat eagles, Haines
20:39 #26 Kodiak Island
21:18 #27 Kenai and Russian Rivers
22:07 #28 Hatcher Pass
22:55 #29 Portage Valley
23:38 #30 Girdwood and Alyeska
24:20 #31 Flattop Mountain
25:03 #32 Seward
25:47 #33 Anchorage
26:27 #34 Cordova and Childs Glacier
27:08 #35 Pribilof Islands
27:49 #36 Dalton Highway
28:37 #37 Chena Hot Springs
29:21 #38 Utqiagvik
30:00 #39 Nome
30:43 #40 North Pole
31:18 Road trips to see all 40
32:09 Which one would you visit first?
Sources mentioned in this video: National Park Service; USGS; Explore Fairbanks; UAF Geophysical Institute; U.S. Forest Service; Alaska Climate Research; Alaska DNR; Matanuska Glacier Park; Guinness World Records; Talkeetna Chamber of Commerce; Alaska DOT&PF; Alyeska Pipeline; City of Whittier; NOAA Fisheries; City of Unalaska; NOAA; ASCE; Alaska State Parks; Alaska State Library; City and Borough of Juneau; American Bald Eagle Foundation; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game; Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center; Alyeska Resort; Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility; Alaska SeaLife Center; Seward Chamber of Commerce; Visit Anchorage; Alaska Native Heritage Center; Cordova Chamber of Commerce; BLM; Chena Hot Springs Resort; Alaska Center for Energy and Power; North Slope Borough; Alaska Dept. of Commerce; Nome Convention and Visitors Bureau; Iditarod Trail Committee; City of North Pole; Santa Claus House; Anderson, Monroy & Keltner, Emotion (2018).
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3D maps: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2020 by EOX (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, on AWS Terrain Tiles elevation (USGS 3DEP).
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