Whittier: Seward Highway
The landscape around Anchorage is a low coastal plain of forest and wetlands, framed by Cook Inlet and the Chugach Mountains, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. The municipality extends well beyond the city centre, incorporating mountain valleys, tidal shores and a large share of the inlet's northeastern coast. Anchorage began in 1914 as a construction camp for the Alaska Railroad, connecting its early growth to transport and trade. The area lies within the traditional homeland of the Dena'ina Athabascans; their language and cultural traditions remain an important part of south-central Alaska. Together, city districts and undeveloped terrain give Anchorage an unusually expansive municipal setting.
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Whittier has served as a port settlement on Alaska’s Prince William Sound since the Second World War. Set at the head of Passage Canal, the small community is enclosed by the steep, rain-soaked mountains of the Chugach range and faces waters leading into the sound. Its wartime origins remain visible in the compact layout and in Begich Towers, a former military building that now contains homes and essential services. The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, shared by road vehicles and Alaska Railroad trains, provides Whittier’s only land connection. Find related webcams around Prince William Sound for a fuller picture of coastal Alaska.
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Built around the homelands of Indigenous peoples and later linked by fur-trade and mining routes, Alaska grew into the largest state in the United States. These coordinates lie in the Interior, where the Tanana River crosses a country of broad lowlands, boreal forest and long winters. Alaska extends from the Gulf of Alaska to the Arctic Ocean and includes Denali, North America’s highest mountain. Athabascan communities remain central to the living cultural fabric of the interior. The Alaska Railroad reached Fairbanks in 1923, helping connect this remote region with the coast. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Interior Alaska.
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The Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts define much of the United States — their ports, fisheries and trade routes have long tied the country’s economy to the wider world. Between them, the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains and Mississippi River basin form sharply different regions, from high western ranges to broad agricultural heartlands. Cities carry much of the national story: New York’s Statue of Liberty, a gift from France dedicated in 1886, remains an enduring symbol, while Washington, DC concentrates major federal institutions. Indigenous nations have shaped these lands for millennia, and their living cultures remain essential to the country’s identity. Find related webcams in the surrounding areas to build a fuller picture of the United States.
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