The States: Alaska "Land of the Midnight Sun" Part 1 of 2

nights occur around the winter solstice, Dec. 21. The days and nights are each 12 hours at the spring and fall equinoxes. The first European contact with Alaska occurred in the year 1741, when Vitus Bering led an expedition for the Russian Navy aboard the St. Peter. After his crew returned to Russia bearing sea otter pelts judged to be the finest fur in the world. In the 1890s, gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska. ...
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