Alaska Features & Landmarks
  (Physical, Cultural & Historical Features)

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Alaska Physical, Cultural & Historical Features

 Note that the Cultural Feature "Locales" can be very helpful in getting oriented in a new community,
especially when browsed at the Borough level.

Alaska Physical Features Arches 2 Areas 111 Bars 502 Basins 48 Bays 2,437 Beaches 80 Benches 1 Bends 38 Capes 2,488 Cliffs 223 Craters 13 Falls 43 Flats 48 Forests 6 Gaps 227 Glaciers 735 Guts 227 Islands 2,646 Isthmuses 2 Lakes 3,179 Lava 1 Pillars 33 Plains 5 Ranges 270 Rapids 26 Ridges 261 Seas 4 Slopes 2 Springs 33 Streams 9,389 Summits 3,038 Swamps 12 Valleys 571 Woods 1

Alaska Cultural Features Airports 584 Bridges 4 Buildings 13 Canals 26 Cemeteries 19 Channels 452 Churches 5 Civil 46 Crossings 12 Dams 167 Harbors 61 Hospitals 2 Levees 6 Locales 1,732 Mines 169 Oilfields 3 Parks 133 Post Offices 4 Reserves 49 Reservoirs 68 Schools 90 Towers 120 Trails 94 Tunnels 1 Wells 41

Alaska Historical Features/Landmarks Areas 1 Islands 1 Lakes 1 Locales 19 Military (Historical) 6 Parks 2 Populated Places 7 Post Offices 35 Towers 1 Trails 1 Valleys 1 Alaska's National Historic Landmarks48

• Physical Features are the natural features of the Earth's surface.
• Cultural Features are landscape features that were created or shaped by humans.
• Historical Features are features that no longer exist on the landscape.

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