Alaska 2014

After a full day at sea crossing the Gulf of Alaska, we arrived in Anchorage, Alaska's largest city.

Founded in 1915 as a railroad camp, Anchorage has grown into Alaska's largest city and main travel hub. On March 27, 1964, a natural disaster of incredible proportions struck Anchorage and south-central Alaska: the Good Friday earthquake. This earthquake measured 9.2 on the Richter Scale; the largest ever recorded in North America and because Anchorage lies only 80 miles from the epicenter, damages to structures ran to the hundreds of millions of dollars. Today, Anchorage constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population. Anchorage is bordered to the east by the Chugach foothills, to the west by Cook inlet, to the south by Potter Marsh and to the north by World War II military bases.