Iditarod was the longest-ever after a lack of snow forced changes to the route and starting point for the world's most famous ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves a fateful moment, frozen in time.

Port Protection Alaska” returns Tuesday, March 11 at 9 p.m. ET on National Geographic. Stream the season 8 premiere for free ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance. Click image for a larger view At the time of contact with Russian explorers in the mid-18th century, Alaska was occupied by ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

For what it’s worth, the Alaskan delegation prefers the “Denali” name: In 1975 the Alaska Geographic Names Board changed Mount McKinley to Denali and, at former Gov. Jay Hammond’s request ...

On this season of National Geographic's "Port Protection Alaska," follow Port Protection residents as they work unceasingly ...