The city of Sitka, Alaska at dawn.

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Southeast Alaska is so un-Alaska. While much of the state is a treeless expanse of land with a layer of permafrost, the Panhandle is a slender, long rainforest that stretches 540 miles from Icy Bay, near Yakutat, south to Portland Canal and is filled with ice-blue glaciers, rugged snowcapped mountains, towering Sitka spruce and a thousand islands known as the Alexander Archipelago.


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Californian sea lion (Zalophus californianus) swimming and playing in the reefs of Los Islotes in Espiritu Santo island.

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