Once considered a frozen wasteland, this is America's last frontier. In 1867 two cents bought an acre of the Russian territory known as Alaska. The whole region cost 7.2 million dollars. A land where the grizzly bear roams free and caribou in the tens of thousands migrate across the tundra. Alaska is an immense peninsula.
Smaller peninsulas extend from the mainland.
The 200 island Aleutian chain reaches far into the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.