Alaska Aviation Weathercams

Category: Airport

Alaska is a US state whose territory was purchased in 1867 from the Russian Empire after Western Union stopped construction of its first electric telegraph line which ran from California, up the coast and across the Bering Strait, then to Moscow and into the European Telegraph network.
With its myriad islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles of tidal shoreline. The Aleutian Islands chain extends west from the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Many active volcanoes are found in the Aleutians. Unimak Island, for example, is home to Mount Shishaldin, which is an occasionally smoldering volcano that rises to 10,000 feet above the North Pacific. It is the most perfect volcanic cone on Earth, even more symmetrical than Japan’s Mount Fuji.

In 1964, the massive “Good Friday Earthquake” killed 131 people and destroyed several villages, many by the resultant tsunamis. The quake was the second most powerful one on Earth in the past fifty years, measured at 9.2 on the Richter scale.