I had a day in Anchorage. (Grass covered visitor's center) |
The sign says I'm only 2839 miles from Chicago. |
I'm glad I wasn't here in 1964 for the Good Friday Earthquake. |
This Map shows the Earth Quake's E[icenter. |
Check out these panoramic views:
(Use your shift key to zoom in and Ctrl to zoom out. Use your mouse to drag up, down, right or left)
The Exit Glacier Kenai Fiords National Park, Alaska |
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Looking down on the lower part of the Exit Glacier, Kenai Fiords National Park. | Blue glacial ice at the terminus of the Exit Glacier, near Seward. | |||||
Recessional moraines show the rapid retreat of the Exit Glacier. |
The Seward Highway Kenai Peninsula, Alaska |
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Granite Creek in the Kenai Mountains. | Avalanche damage on the Seward Highway in the Kenai Mountains. | |||||
Old placer mining sites at Canyon Creek on the Seward Highway. | Boggy meadows near Summit Lake on the Seward Highway. | |||||
Upper Trail Lake on the Seward Highway. |
Hope Alaska |
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Downtown Hope, one of Alaska's classic small towns. | Fishing for silver salmon in the creek at Hope. | |||||
Rocky point near Hope on Turnagain Arm. | A shaly beach above the mudflats of Turnagain Arm, south shore. | |||||
Vicinity of Anchorage Alaska |
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Otter Lake, a recreation site on Fort Richardson Military Reservation. | Saint Innocent Orthodox Cathedral, in the northeastern suburbs of Anchorage. | |||||
The view over Cook Inlet from Earthquake Park. | This birch forest masks the destruction of the earthquake-triggered Turnagain Slide. |
Turnagain Arm Alaska |
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The north shore of Turnagain Arm, near Girdwood. | Windy Point (and it was!) on Turnagain |
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Alaska | ||||||||||||||||||
More than two hundred VR
panoramas of the Great Land of Alaska, including Anchorage and the Inside
Passage. These amazing photographs allow you to look all the way around -
it's the next best thing to being there. Requires
QuickTime.
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