Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States -Alabama - Montana by Thomson Gale

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The Tigers have won 14 bowl games, 6 SEC titles, and have produced 2 Heisman trophy winners (Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson). The Blue-Gray game, an all-star contest, is held at Montgomery on Christmas Day, and the Senior Bowl game is played in Mobile in January. Additionally, Alabama-Huntsville won National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II hockey championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Boat races include the annual Dauphin Island Race, the largest one-day sailing race in the United States.

The Alaska Railroad links communities between Whittier, Seward, Anchorage, and Fairbanks. As of 2003, this railroad of 466 route mi (750 km) was not connected to any other North American line (although railbarge service provides access to the rest of the US rail network). 3 million. The railroad carries volumes of coal from Healy north to Fairbanks (600,000 tons/ year) and south to Seward for export (800,000 tons/year). The railroad also carries large volumes of gravel to Anchorage (more than two million tons from Palmer in the mid-1990s) and petroleum products (more than one million tons from Mapco’s North Pole refinery) to Anchorage and various military bases in the area.

R. R. Kuskokwim R. R. Cook Inlet KENAI PENINSULA BRISTOL BAY Wrangell St. Elias Nat’l Park Chugach National Forest ANCHORAGE Chugach St. Park WoodTikchik St. R. R. R. 200 Yukon Charley Rivers N. P. Tan Denali Nat’l Park 100 200 miles . R. R. R. R. GULF OF Admiralty Nat’l Mon. ALASKA KETCHIKAN GATEWAY KODIAK ISLAND PACIFIC OCEAN Misty Fjords Nat’l Mon. Aleutian Islands National Wildlife Refuge PACIFIC OCEAN 24 Alaska The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill highlighted the need for better prevention and response abilities.

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