Travel Photography - Exploring the Eklutna Historical Park and St. Nicholas Church in Alaska
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알래스카의 역사에 대해 알아보기 위해 박물관에 갔는데, 미국과 러시아의 관계에 대한 전시회가 열리고 있었다. 러시아는 알래스카를 18세기부터 지배하고 있었다. 그런데 크림전쟁이 발발하자 재정이 부족하게 됐다. 결국 러시아는 미국에 알래스카를 매각한다. 매각대금은 720만 달러의 헐값이었다. 알래스카가 미국땅이 된 지 올해로 꼭 150주년이지만 알래스카에는 아직도 러시아의 흔적이 많이 남아 있다. 앵커리지 인근의 ‘에클루트나’라는 마을에는 러시아 정교 교회가 있다. 통나무로 지어진 성 니콜라이 교회 건물은 150년 가까이 됐다. 러시아 이민자의 후손인 신부가 교회 안을 구경시켜 주었다. 교회 안에는 19세기에 쓰던 성상화와 제기가 남아 있다. 알래스카 원주민들은 고유의 언어와 문화를 간직하며 살고 있었다. 러시아인들이 18세기부터 이곳에 오기 시작했고, 원주민들은 러시아 정교를 받아들이고 유럽의 문명과 접하게 됐다. 교회 옆에는 원주민들의 묘지가 있다. 그런데 묘지마다 작은 집이 하나씩 지어져 있다. 고인을 위해 ‘영혼의 집’을 만드는 알래스카 원주민들의 풍습이다. 어떤 집들은 진짜 사람이 살고 있는 것처럼 정교하게 지어져 있다. 안에는 가구와 장식까지 있다. 그리고, 백야에 영혼이 편히 잠을 자라는 의미인지 창에는 커튼을 쳐 놓았다. “정교를 받아들이기 전에 원주민들은 사람이 죽으면 영혼이 이 집 부근을 맴돈다고 믿었습니다. 1년 정도 있다가 땅으로 돌아간다고요. 그래서 이런 집을 지어준 것이죠.” 알래스카 전통 ‘영혼의 집’ 앞에는 러시아 정교 십자가가 세워져 있고, 미국 국기가 놓여 있다. 오늘날의 알래스카가 어떻게 만들어졌는지를 상징하는 것 같다.
[English: Google Translator]
I went to the museum to learn about the history of Alaska, and there was an exhibition of relations between the United States and Russia. Russia dominated Alaska from the 18th century. But when the Crime War broke out, there was a shortage of finances. Russia eventually sells Alaska to the United States. The sale price was a low of $ 7.2 million. Although Alaska has been in the US for 150 years this year, there are still a lot of traces of Russia in Alaska. There is a Russian Orthodox Church in the town of Eckruina near Anchorage. The building of the St. Nikolai church built by logs has been around for 150 years. The bride, a descendant of a Russian immigrant, watched the inside of the church. In the church, there is a virginity and appeal that was used in the 19th century. Alaska Natives lived with their own language and culture. The Russians began to come here from the 18th century, and the Aborigines accepted the Russian Orthodox and came into contact with European civilization. There is a graveyard of Aboriginal people beside the church. But each cemetery has a small house built one by one. It is the custom of the Alaska native to make the 'House of the Soul' for the deceased. Some houses are elaborately built like real people live. Inside there are furniture and decorations. And, in the middle of the night, the soul put a curtain on the window to mean that it would sleep comfortably. Before accepting Orthodox, the Aborigines believed that if a person dies, the soul moves around this house. After a year or so, I return to the ground. That's why they built this house. In front of Alaska's traditional house of soul, there is a Russian Orthodox cross, and the American flag is on it. It seems to symbolize how today's Alaska is made.
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■클립명: 아메리카017-미국32-11 앵커리지 에클루트나 마을
■여행, 촬영, 편집, 원고: 윤성도 PD (travel, filming, editing, writing: KBS TV Producer)
■촬영일자: 2017년 7월July
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마을,village,camel, dune, sand, ATV,박물관/전시관,museum,종교시설,church,북미North America아메리카미국USAUnited States of America윤성도20177월알래스카 주State of AlaskaJuly걸어서 세계속으로
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나는 먼저 알래스카의 중심도시 앵커리지에서 여정을 시작했다. 6월 중순의 날씨는 무척이나 화창했다. 앵커리지는 소련 붕괴 전까지만 해도 아메리카와 아시아, 유럽을 최단거리로 연결하는 항공의 교차로였다. 이정표를 보고 있는데 빨간 색 버스가 한 대 다가왔다. 옛날 전차 모양을 한 앵커리지 시내 투어 버스다. 나는 이 버스를 타고 앵커리지 시내를 둘러보기로 했다. “제가 어릴 때는 앞에 보이는 곳이 숲이 아니었어요. 1964년에 지진이 있었거든요.” 앵커리지는 1964년 대지진으로 건물들이 많이 파괴돼 옛날의 모습은 좀처럼 찾아보기 힘들다. 그리고, 도심에도 숲이 울창하다. 마치 전원주택단지 같아, 다른 지역에서 온 미국사람들도 부러워한다고 한다. 가장 인상적인 것은 자동차만큼이나 수상 비행기가 많다는 것이다. 땅이 워낙 넓은 이곳에서는 수상비행기가 필수적이다.
[English: Google Translator]
I first started my journey in Anchorage, the central city of Alaska. The weather in the middle of June was very sunny. Anchorage was the crossroads of airlines connecting the Americas, Asia and Europe to the shortest distance before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I am looking at the milestone, but a red bus is approaching. It is an old city bus-shaped tour bus in Anchorage. I decided to take the bus and take a tour of downtown Anchorage. When I was a child, it was not the forest where I saw it. There was an earthquake in 1964. Anchorage was a massive earthquake in 1964, and many of the buildings were destroyed. And, the forests are dense in the city. It's like a power house, and people from other parts of the world are envious. The most impressive thing is that there are as many seaplanes as cars. A seaplane is essential in this wide area.
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■클립명: 아메리카017-미국32-01 전차 버스를 타고 보는 시내 투어
■여행, 촬영, 편집, 원고: 윤성도 PD (travel, filming, editing, writing: KBS TV Producer)
■촬영일자: 2017년 7월July
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호수,lake,volcanic, crater, caldera, mountain,터미널,terminal,자동차,탈것,,car,건물,architecture,북미North America아메리카미국USAUnited States of America윤성도20177월알래스카 주State of AlaskaJuly걸어서 세계속으로
We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska
Every summer, Amira Abujbara boards a nine-seater plane at a tiny air taxi office. It is the same plane, with the same pilot, that she has flown in almost every year of her childhood.
The 50-minute flight will take her over a snowy mountain range, a volcano and an elaborate tundra of blueberries and mushrooms, tea leaves and caribou moss, wildflowers and spider webs.
She is heading to her mother’s childhood home and the place where she spends her summers – the remote Alaskan village of Iliamna. Without any roads connecting it to the outside world, this is her only way of going ‘home’.
Iliamna, which is an Athabascan word meaning “big ice” or “big lake” sits on the shore of the lake that shares its name. The largest in Alaska, it spans more than 2,500 square kilometres, is pure enough to drink from and is home to the biggest sockeye salmon run in the world.
Iliamna shares a post office, school, airport, medical clinic and two small stores with the neighbouring village, Newhalen. Together, they have fewer than 300 residents.
It is a far cry from her father’s home country, Qatar, where Amira spends the rest of the year.
Her father is Qatari and her mother is Dena’ina - a subset of the Athabascan Alaska Natives.
Amira was born in Alaska and is registered as an Alaska Native.
When her father married her mother he promised her parents that they would return regularly and so Amira and her sister spent their summers in Iliamna.
Their grandmother ran a bed and breakfast for fishermen, so she would help make the beds, clean and prepare the meals for her guests. She learned how to subsistence fish – catching, smoking, brining and canning salmon during the summer months to store for the rest of the year.
For the villagers, their home is a beautiful and fruitful land, but it is also a place of incredible hardships.
Tiny villages are dwarfed by the vast wilderness that surrounds them, and while the region is rich in natural resources, many Alaska Natives struggle to remain above the poverty line. According to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, over any five-year period between 1993 and 2013, an average of 11 percent of the state’s rural population moved into urban areas. Those aged 18 to 24 are the most likely to leave. But life in the city can be overwhelming for those used to the safety net of a tight-knit rural community.
Then there are the alcohol and substance abuse rates: in Alaska, age-adjusted rates of alcohol-induced deaths are 71.4 per 100,000 for Alaska Natives and 12.1 for whites.
Suicide rates for Alaska Natives are almost four times the national average, and Alaska Natives are far more likely to succumb to each of the state’s leading causes of death – cancer, heart disease and unintentional injury – than their white counterparts.
In Alaska, Native children are nearly three times as likely as white children to die before their fifth birthday.
The situation Alaska Natives face can, perhaps, best be summarised by a note in the minutes of a meeting of Newhalen residents. In a list of wishes for the community’s future, one states simply: “To still be here.”
But why is this community so at risk and will a proposed gold and copper mine, located close to the villages, endanger it further still? Residents know it offers the promise of jobs, but there are fears it could ruin the salmon run, and with it, their way of life.
We Are Still Here tells the story of a community fighting to preserve its culture and its connection to the land. #AlaskaNative #Indigenous #Arctic
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식사를 마친 나는 타키트나 입구에 자리한 공원묘지를 찾았다. 한적하고 조용한 이 곳은 매킨리 산에서 조난을 당한 산악인들이 많이 묻혀있었다. 묘지에 들어서자 고상돈과 이일교대원을 기리는 비석이 눈에 들어왔다. 한국인 최초로 에베레스트등정에 성공하고 북미 최고봉인 이 곳 매킨리 산을 등반하다 운명을 달리했던 고상돈 대원이다. 이 곳을 찾은 한국인 아이들이 그들의 명복을 빌며 꽃을 바쳤다. 이 곳에서 희생된 한국인들은 생각보다 많았다. 나도 그들의 명복을 빌어주고 싶었다. 많은 사람들이 산에 오르고 또 그 과정에서 목숨을 잃었다. 등산을 잘 모르는 나로선 목숨까지 걸어야 한다는 것이 이해하기 어려웠다. 하지만 내가 모르는 그 부분에서 그들은 국적과 피부색에 상관없이 다 같이 무엇인가를 발견한 같은 운명의 사람들이었다. 그리고 묘지 한쪽에 새겨진 추도시가 가슴 깊이 짙은 울림을 전해주었다.
[English: Google Translator]
Finished eating I found the Park Cemetery Located in the kit or other openings. This quiet and tranquil place where they had buried the climbers suffered much distress in Mount McKinley. The monument honoring the gosangdon caught my eye and won two days alternately lift chairs on a cemetery. Korean first successful ascent of Mount Everest, and this place is climbing Mount McKinley is the highest peak in North America gosangdon crew had different destinies. The Korean children found this place and offered their best wishes and flower soul. Koreans have been sacrificed in this place was more than I think. I wanted to damn their souls. Many people lost their lives in another mountain to climb in the process. Do not know the climb well naroseon understood that it was difficult to walk through life. I do not know, but they were the people in that part of the same fate as the one found something, regardless of nationality and skin color. And the poem engraved on the memorial cemetery was delivered one chest deep dark sound.
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■클립명 : 아메리카017-미국07-10 탈키트나, 매킨리 산의 조난자 묘지/Talkeetna 2 Cementery/Climber
■여행, 촬영, 편집, 원고 :김기용 PD (travel, filming, editing, writing : KBS Kiyong Kim TV Producer)
■촬영일자 : 2007년 7월(July)
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아메리카,America,아메리카,미국,USA,United States of America,US,김기용,2007,7월 July,알래스카,Alaska,Alaska
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Chugach State Park Alaska Department of Natural Resources Photos Parks
Chugach State Park is located in Southcentral Alaska mostly within the Municipality of Anchorage. The park contains approximately 495,000 acres of land and is one of the four largest state parks in the United States. Southcentral Alaska is an area of diverse land forms and rugged topography, bounded on the north and west by the Alaska Range, and on the east by the Chugach and Wrangell Mountains and Prince William Sound. The region contains extensive ocean shoreline, abundant lakes, massive glaciers and ice fields. The park’s westernmost boundary lies in the western foothills of the Chugach Mountain Range and is a mere seven miles to the east of downtown Anchorage. The park is further defined by the Knik Arm on the north, Turnagain Arm on the south, and Upper and Lower Lake George and Chugach National Forest on the east. Within minutes of the park are the communities of Palmer, Eagle River, Chugiak, Indian, Bird, Girdwood, the village of Eklutna, and Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson.
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시내에 다시 돌아오니 장터가 열려 있다. 토요일과 일요일에 열리는 주말시장인데, 5월부터 9월까지만 장이 선다고 한다. 이곳에서는 알래스카의 특산품을 많이 구경할 수 있다. 돌을 쪼개 만든 날카로운 칼은 원주민 전통 칼로, 알래스카의 대표적인 공예품이다. 이런 털모자면 영하 40도의 추위도 끄떡없을 것 같다. 원주민들의 옷을 입고 썰매 끄는 개들과 기념촬영을 하는 곳도 있다. 이 주말시장에선 눈이 무척이나 즐겁다. 하지만 주말시장의 가장 큰 즐거움은 역시 다양한 길거리 음식이다. 이곳엔 알래스카에서만 맛볼 수 있는 음식이 있다. 엘크사슴이나 들소 고기로 만든 햄버거다. 엘크사슴 햄버거를 맛봤다. 맛은 소고기와 비슷한데, 야생에서 자란 짐승의 고기라 그런지 기름기도 훨씬 적고 담백하다.
[English: Google Translator]
The market is open when I come back to the city. It is a weekend market on Saturdays and Sundays. Here you can see many of Alaska's specialties. A sharp knife made of split stone is an indigenous traditional knife, a representative craft of Alaska. If this fleece is cold, it will not be cold to 40 degrees. There are also dogs wearing natives clothes and sledding dogs and taking photographs. Snow is very enjoyable on this weekend market. But the greatest joy of the weekend market is also the street food variety. There is food here in Alaska. It is a hamburger made from elk deer or bison meat. I tasted an elk deer hamburger. The taste is similar to beef, because it is the meat of the beast that is raised in the wild.
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■클립명: 아메리카017-미국32-02 주말시장의 먹거리 엘크 햄버거
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■촬영일자: 2017년 7월July
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시장/상점,market,육식,meat,빵,bread,특산품,local products,동물,animal,북미North America아메리카미국USAUnited States of America윤성도20177월알래스카 주State of AlaskaJuly걸어서 세계속으로
Spirit Houses - Unique cemetery in Eklutna, Alaska
The old St. Nicholas church stands proud and is the center of the Alaska Native and Russian Orthodox Cultural Experience. The Eklutna cemetery, in use since 1650, is now a historical park and is probably the most photographed graveyard in Alaska.
Colorful spirit houses are a unique Athabaskan tradition. Spirit houses were built by the family after the person's death. According to Dana'ina beliefs, the spirit needs as many as 40 days to make that passage from the grave site and the houses provide shelter for the spirit. The graves of the Athabaskan people are marked not only with their traditional spirit houses, but also with an Orthodox Christian Cross.
This video was captured in July, 2002.
Music is Pompeii by Josh Woodward ( Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Haunted Places in Alaska
From Anchorage to Juneau, Fairbanks to Wasilla, Sitka to Ketchikan, The Last Frontier has fascinating history and terrifying hauntings hiding behind every turn. Which is why The Speakeasy presents our picks for the most haunted places in Alaska. Enjoy!
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4th Avenue Theater interior by John T. Jet Lowe ( is in the Public Domain
Northwest Arctic Heritage Center by Western Arctic National Parklands ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
NANA Museum Of The Arctic(js)02 by Jerzystrzelecki ( is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (
dredge[1] by Daniel Johnson ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
Gold Dredge 3 by Darren Giles ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital by RadioKAOS ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
Cowles Street southbound at Airport Way, Fairbanks, Alaska by RadioKAOS ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
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Cemetery at the Eklutna church. This is a mix of Athabascan burial traditions and Orthodox iconography. The houses are homes where the person's spirit can reside after the person dies until the spirit moves on. - panoramio by olekinderhook ( is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (
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Red Onion Saloon 2012 by Miyagawa ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (
University of Alaska Anchorage entrance sign by Dinker022089 ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (
Consortium Library Exterior, architect Roland H. Lane, University of Alaska, campus, Anchorage, Alaska, USA by Wonderlane ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
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On the Alyeskahaunted, places
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6월은 백야의 절정기다. 밤 9시가 넘었는데 주변이 마치 대낮처럼 환하다. 그런데 이 늦은 시간, 간이상점에 손님들이 북적북적하다. 무엇을 파나 했더니 아이스크림이다. “여름에 알래스카에서 아이스크림 드시는 기분이 어떠신가요?” “재미있죠. 오늘 더웠거든요. 이런 날엔 아이스크림이 좋죠.” 아이스크림 가게는 여름에만 문을 여는데 밤 10시까지 한다. 이때는 워낙 바빠 고등학생들도 아르바이트를 한단다. “겨울에는 일을 거의 안 해요. 학교 가고 성적 관리해야 하니까요.” 백야의 깊은 밤, 알래스카에서 먹는 아이스크림은 느낌이 남달랐다.
[English: Google Translator]
June is the peak of the midnight. It is past 9 o'clock in the night and the surroundings are as bright as the daytime. But at this late hour, the shop is crowded with crowded shops. What I saw was ice cream. How do you feel about ice cream in Alaska in the summer? It's fun. It was hot today. I like ice cream on this day. The ice cream shop opens only in the summer, but till 10 pm. At this time, high school students are too busy to work part-time. I rarely work in the winter. I have to go to school and manage my grades. On a deep night in the midnight sun, the ice cream in Alaska felt different.
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■클립명: 아메리카017-미국32-05 여름 알래스카의 아이스크림
■여행, 촬영, 편집, 원고: 윤성도 PD (travel, filming, editing, writing: KBS TV Producer)
■촬영일자: 2017년 7월July
[Keywords]
시장/상점,market,디저트,dessert,북미North America아메리카미국USAUnited States of America윤성도20177월알래스카 주State of AlaskaJuly걸어서 세계속으로
14 - History of discrimination in Alaska
When William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia, the Russians made the United States government agree to bar any racial discrimination in the laws of Alaska. After the war ended, many military men populated the state, and the spouses they met overseas came with them. This surge of racial diversity made many church members uncomfortable enough to tuck tail and run, but not Felton.
Eklutna Lake Kayaking Anchorage Alaska
Gloria and I headed out to Eklutna Lake located in Chugach State Park for a beautiful day of kayaking. You take the Glenn Hwy or Hwy AK-1 North to Eklutna Village road then take the Eklutna Lake road. The road will take you straight to the lake. You can get your RV down there to the parking area and stay for the day. There is no turn-arounds once you start down Eklutna Lake road so make sure you want to go here. Also the cost is $5.00 per vehicle for the day. The lake is 1 mile wide and 7 miles long. Great for kayaking. Also bring your bikes there is an 11 mile trail around the lake area as well.
Laurel Bill on Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil, Knik withers
Author/speaker Laurel Downing Bill on Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil features how Knik, once the largest town in Cook Inlet region with 500 residents, withered away after the Alaska Railroad bypassed it to build the Alaska Railroad close to Wasilla in 1915-1917.
When the U.S. Post Office opened its branch in Knik on Oct. 27, 1904, it signaled that Knik was a bone fide community. But it only remained open for 13 years because of the Federal government’s decision to bypass it when it laid out its plans for a railroad to connect Seward to Fairbanks in 1915.
Thousands of gold seekers had streamed into Cook Inlet by the late 1800s. These people hacked out primitive trails connecting scattered camps and eventually unified the region between Cook Inlet on the south and the Talkeetna Mountains on the north, and the Matanuska River on the east and the Susitna River in the west.
Although few of the prospectors who entered Cook Inlet became rich, a small Dena’ina Athabascan settlement called Knik had enough commercial activity that the Alaska Commercial Co., which had taken over the assets of the Russian American Co., opened a trading post there in 1882. (Some say Knik means “fire,” and other sources say it means “among the islands.”)
Russian clergy journals noted that the Natives of Old Knik moved their village to New Knik (Eklutna) in 1897 – perhaps because so many gold miners were flooding into the area. They even took the St. Nicholas chapel with them. The Natives did help the miners, though, working as guides, chopping logs, packing freight and in many other ways.
Knik’s population grew to several hundred as hard rock followed placer mining. And the discovery of gold in the Interior in 1902-03 helped to keep their hopes afloat. That discovery, near what would become Fairbanks, led to more intense mining everywhere.
Discoveries of gold north of Knik in the Talkeetna Mountains, as well as placer gold northwest on the Iditarod River, made the community across the Turnagain Arm from modern-day Birchwood the major trading center for the gold and coal mines in the region. At its peak, Knik boasted a population close to 500 and was the largest town on Cook Inlet.
But after railroad engineers laid out a route for the tracks 13 miles north of Knik, and established a railroad camp at a place called Wasilla, many Knik businesses and residents moved to that new settlement. Knik eventually died. The old pool hall, now the Knik Museum, and a small empty cabin that sits nearby are the only original buildings left of this once-thriving community.
This episode aired on CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA Channel 11 Daybreak on Oct. 27, 2016.
Alaska history
LaurelDowningBillAuntPhil
Llamas, Cabins and Alaska
Fringe benefits from volunteering with Alaska State Parks.
Alaska Road Trip - Part I - Anchorage to Talkeetna
Part I - Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugach State Park (Eagle River & Eklutna Lake) & Talkeetna
Part II - Salmon Fishing on Talkeetna River & Denali National Park
Part III - Ester, Alaska
Eklutna Lake
Eklutna Lake is a 1,424.5 hectares (3,520 acres) artificial lake in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, near the village of Eklutna.[1][2] It is located entirely inside Chugach State Park[3] and is about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and 7 miles (11 km) in length
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알래스카를 제대로 알고 싶어 박물관을 찾았다. 지난 수천 년간 이곳 알래스카는 원주민들의 땅이었다. 알래스카가 서구사회에 알려진 건 불과 270년 전 그 뒤 알래스카를 지배하던 러시아는 크림전쟁 때문에 재정이 어려워져 알래스카를 우리 돈 약 82억 원에 미국에 팔았다. 당시 알래스카 구매를 주도한 수어드 국무장관은 쓸모없는 거대한 얼음 통을 샀다며 국민들의 비난을 받아야만 했다. 하지만 불과 30년 뒤, 수어드의 거대한 얼음 통은 황금을 낳는 땅으로 바뀌었다. 급기야 이곳에서 유전까지 발견되자 알래스카는 그야말로 미국의 보물이 됐다.
[English: Google Translator]
I want to know Alaska well visited museum. It was the last thousands of years, Alaska is the land of the indigenous people. Known cases are sold Alaska to the United States 270 years ago, just after Russia dominated the Alaska Alaska becomes difficult to finance because of the Crimean War in the Western world for our money, about 82 billion won. At the time the Prime Minister, who led the Alaska Purchase sueodeu bought a huge ice bucket was useless he must receive the criticism from the public. But only after 30 years, a huge tub of ice turned into sueodeu that lays the golden land. Doeja finally found this place through genetic Alaska was truly a treasure of the United States.
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■클립명 :아메리카017-미국20-01
■여행, 촬영, 편집, 원고 :안성진 PD (travel, filming, editing, writing : KBS Sungjin Ahn TV Producer)
■촬영일자 : 2012년 8월(August)
[Keywords]
북아메리카,North America,북미,미국,United States of America,America,USA,안성진,2012,8월 August
Eklutna Cemetery- Dena'ina Athabascan village of Eklutna brief
2018 Native Village of Eklutina ALASKA(호국단 댄싱)Potlatch / Powwow
alaskakim.com
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Potlatch / Powwow
Hiking in Alaska - Mt. Baldy hike in Chugach State Park (Eagle River)
We hiked up Mt Baldy yesterday. I should specify that I hiked up Mt Baldy while my friend Johnathon hike to the top of Mt Baldy. Yes. There is a difference.
It was a beautiful day and, as you can see, gorgeous views. We even had a bald eagle circling above for a little while.