Wild and beautiful Alaska is home to majestic mountains, glaciers, active volcanoes, huge tracks of forested land and some of the planet's most varied extremes of cold, heat, rain, snow and wind. In addition, Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern U.S. State.
Major geographical regions (north to south) include the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Slope, Brooks Mountain Range, a central upland dissected by the Yukon River, the massiveAlaska Mountain Range, the Pacific Coastal areas and eastern Inside Passage, and the Alaskan Peninsula, andAleutian Islands of the southwest.
Major geographical regions (north to south) include the Arctic Coastal Plain, North Slope, Brooks Mountain Range, a central upland dissected by the Yukon River, the massiveAlaska Mountain Range, the Pacific Coastal areas and eastern Inside Passage, and the Alaskan Peninsula, andAleutian Islands of the southwest.