What Do You Know About Alaska And Hawaii?

Alaska and Hawaii are found in the enlarged scale detail inset boxes of a United States map. It became the 49th state on January 3, 1959. Alaska increased the nation's size by nearly 20 percent and added lots of cold and glaciers. On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th United State's State and added 6459 square miles of tropical head and volcanic islands.  Alaska's name come from "inuit alakshak" means "great land" and it was spelled "Alaska" on the first Russian maps of the territory. Administrated by the Russian American company from 1977. it was know as Russian American.

The region was sold by Russia to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million when it quickly became know as "Seward's Folly". William H Seward was the American secretary of State who arranged the purchase. The purchase price was high at the time and many though we had become burdened with the territory which we had no population to fill. It was called the territory of Alaska in 1912 until granted statehood.

In Alaska, it's pretty cold there. Because of global warming a huge amount of its ice caps are melting and if it melts completely the whole world could be flooded. The polar bears could become extinct.

Hawaii is a great place to have a vacation. The locals are very friendly and there is one part of it that has an active volcano.