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Alaska

Visit and tour this vast wilderness for an experience of a lifetime.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area, 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²). In fact, it covers more than twice as much land than the next largest state, Texas. If a map of Alaska were superimposed upon a map of the Continental United States, Alsaka would overlap Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado. Alaska has the longest coastline of any state.

It is bordered by Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Alaksa is the largest state by area in the United States. Alask is larger in area than all but 18 of the world's nations.

Some of the best places to fish, experience animal viewing and enjoy the alaskan wilderness are:

• Alaska Fishing Charter

Bristol Bay: This is the world's richest salmon fishery; lodges on the remote rivers of the laska region are an angler's paradise.

Copper River Delta, Cordova: The Copper itself is silty with glacial runoff, but feeder streams and rivers are rich with trout, Dolly Varden, and salmon, with few other alaskan anglers in evidence.

The Kenai River: The biggest king salmon -- up to 98 pounds -- come from the swift Kenai River. Big fish are so common in the second run of kings that there's a special, higher standard for what makes a trophy. Silvers and reds add to a mad, summer-long fishing frenzy.

Homer: Alaska's largest charter-fishing fleet goes for halibut ranging into the hundreds of pounds.

Unalaska: Beyond the road system, Unalaska has the biggest alsakan halibut.

Kodiak Island: The bears are so big here because they live on an island that's crammed with spawning salmon in the summer. Kodiak has the best roadside salmon fishing in Alaska, and the remote fishing, at lodges or fly-in stream banks, is legendary.

Anan Wildlife Observatory: When the fish are running, you can see many dozens of black bear feeding in a salmon stream from close at hand. Access is easiest from Wrangell.

Pack Creek (Admiralty Island): The brown bears of this laaska island, which is more thickly populated with them than anywhere else on earth, have learned to ignore the daily visitors who stand on the platforms at Pack Creek. Access is by air from Juneau.

Katmai National Park: During the July and September salmon runs, dozens of giant brown bears congregate around Brooks Camp, where, from wooden platforms a few yards away, you can watch the full range of their behaviors. Flight services from Kodiak also bring guests at any time of the summer to see bears dig clams on the park's eastern seashore.

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