Rob Stringer Brings Alaska Facts

Over the years Rob Stringer has collected his own personal list of interesting facts about Alaska. Alaska is a big place and there may be many more interesting facts out there but these are the things that particularly interest Rob and his cousin Ed.  Along with many other people Rob Stringer and his extended family are very proud of the fact that Alaska is twice the size of Texas, where everything is supposed to be bigger than anywhere else. If you like water then you’ll love the fact that Alaska is home to 33,000 miles of coastline, small wonder that fishing is such a popular sport.

Rob Stringer with Inconsequential Info on Alaska

If you like to collect inconsequential information about places then you might like to know, as Rob Stringer does, that more than half the glaciers in the world happen to be located in Alaska. Alaska is the only state to have coastlines on three separate seas, the Bering Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Because Alaska has coastlines on three seas it shouldn’t be too surprising that it also has record high tides of 37 feet. One of the strangest facts about Alaska is that it has among the highest and lowest temperatures recorded at minus 78% farenheight and 100% farenheight – this last recorded in 1915, according to Rob Stringer. The highest recorded amount of snow that fell in Alaska in one day was sixty two inches, imagine getting up to that in the morning, quipped Rob’s cousin Ed. The record amount of snow that fell in one year was 974 inches in Thompson Alaska.

Rob Stringer talks about interesting facts about Alaska

From the time they were just teenagers, every time that Rob Stringer has visited his cousin Ed and other members of his extended family, they have all tried to come up with at least one new interesting fact. Alaska has some of the biggest bears in America with the Kodak Bear and the Polar Bear towering over the others at 11 feet high and 1,400 lbs in weight respectively. One of the things that Rob’s cousin Ed constantly jokes about is the fact that his family got their land, which is five square acres, for 10 cents, because the Americans paid the Russians 2 cents an acre when they bought Alaska in 1867.

Rob Stringer on Alaska’s State Bird

Rob Stringer recently found out that there is actually an Alaskan bird; the state bird is called the Alaska Willow Phamigan that can literally change color. The bird changes to white from light brown and it was 1955 when it was first named the state bird of Alaska. Alaska is home to the tallest mountain in America; Mount Denali is a whopping 20,320 feet high. Most Alaskans are into sport and according to Rob Stringer and friends; the state sport is Dog Mushing, which makes sense because at one time it was the most important form of transport in Alaska. Rob Stringer is quick to note that nowadays, other forms of transport abound and sled racing with dogs is very popular, as with many things Alaskan, in 1972 it was heralded as the state’s sport.