| The prominent Alaska Pipeline traverses high coastal mountain
ranges on its way from Prudhoe Bay south to Valdez. The Museum's
one-third scale model of the pipeline's above-ground supports
demonstrates the engineering involved in keeping soils frozen
when the pipeline and its warm oil crosses frozen ground.
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The Birds of the Wetlands exhibit highlights the Copper River
Delta, an important resting and feeding area for several million
migratory shorebirds and waterfowl. Eiders, geese, swans, jaegers,
and dunlins are some of the birds depicted in this environmental
diorama.
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Brick tea, samovars, padlocks, and brass bells represent the Russian-American
Company's early history in Alaska, with an extensive network of
trading posts. Russian Orthodox missionaries traveled to these
outlying areas and established churches and schools, some of which
form the centers of villages today. |
