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Anchorage: Small airport on top of the world
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a normal cargo hub, equidistant between New York and Tokyo, with a flight time of only 9.5 hours compared to world airline…
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Unusual hot sun in cold Alaska
Anchorage, the largest city in the US state of Alaska, has experienced a record hot National Day when its temperature reached 32.2 degrees Celsius, the highest level in…
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USA: Anchorage city snowed 3.4m
On April 8, the US National Weather Center said snow storms over the weekend made Anchorage, Alaska, almost submerged in snow with 3.4m thick snow.
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Volcanic dust smoke like an atomic bomb
On March 22, 23, Redoubt volcano in Anchorage, Alaska state of America sprayed 6 times, creating a mushroom-shaped smoke column higher than 15 km, identical to the smoke…
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101 interesting things about the earth (Term 3)
The San Francisco earthquake tops. It caused 700 deaths compared to 114 of the Anchorage earthquake. Property losses in San Francisco are also larger, because fires have…
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The process of picking up Orion spacecraft with a giant amphibious ship
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) and the Navy work together to recover the Orion spacecraft into the space of a giant amphibious ship on December 9.