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Welcome to America's last frontier...
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... where the final lumberingremnants of the lce Age...
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... the massive andawe-inspiring glaciers...
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... calve cathedral-sizedicebergs into the sea...
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... where nature's bounty unfoldsin a panoply of flora and fauna...
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... the like of which is seennowhere else on the planet.
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From the ocean depths,plumbed by ageless cetaceans...
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... to azure skies,where the mighty eagle soars.
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This land abounds with creaturesgreat and small, strange and majestic.
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It is a land steeped in tradition...
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... its mists redolent of the heartysouls of men who have gone to sea.:
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Tlingit and Haida...
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...lnuit and Aleut...
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...Russian and Norwegian.
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Their languages and deeds...
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... Iingering on in the names of ourcountless islands and passageways.
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A land that has lifted its siren callto the bold and adventurous...
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... to those willing to risk their livesfor the promise of untold fortune...
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...be it from fur, fin, from the heaven-pointing spires of old-growth spruce...
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... or from the buried treasures of goldor black energy-rich petroleum.
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A land visited each yearby the relentless and mysterious salmon.
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Each river and stream welcoming homethe king and sockeye....
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--the coho and dog, pink or humpback...
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...which is smashed into cans...
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...and quick-cooked to give thecolourful local folks something to do...
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...other than play cardsand scratch their nuts all day.
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A land where that nice old ladyfrom Fort Lauderdale...
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...who had the strokethree cabins down...
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...was probably parked next to thethawed-out halibut you'll eat tonight...
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...while your floating hotelchugs through the Hecate Strait...
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...to deliver its preciousload of geriatrics...
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...to the hungryVisa-card-accepting denizens...
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...of our northernmost andmost mosquito-infested state!
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So?
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What's " redolent"?
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