Wide River Valleys and lists forests and deserted landscapes the alaska highway lives up to the legend even today. The wilderness starts at the roadside. The u. S. Army built the highway in World War Two and its still the only land connection between alaska and the other u. S. States. The magnificent nature around it has been preserved and it still feels as remote and lonely up here as it always has. In one thousand nine hundred forty two the small town of dawson creek in canada was made the starting point of the alaska highway. This is where the railroad ended and the us army wanted to create a link from there through Northern Canada to alaska to prepare for any attack by the japanese. The new wilderness road was to be completed within months and unbelievable fifteen hundred miles long about twenty four hundred kilometers in america its opening was celebrated in various propaganda films with canada and the United States War Department decided to build a military highway from rio grand
For my needs. River valleys and bliss forests and deserted landscapes the alaska highway lives up to the legend even today. The wilderness starts at the roadside. The u. S. Army built the highway in World War Two and its still the only land connection between alaska and the other u. S. States. The magnificent nature around it has been preserved and it still feels as remote and lonely up here as it always has. Been. In nine hundred forty two the small town of dawson creek in canada was made the starting point of the alaska highway. This is where the railroad ended and the u. S. Army wanted to create a link from there through Northern Canada to alaska to prepare for any attack by the japanese. The new wilderness road was to be completed within months and unbelievable fifteen hundred miles long about twenty four hundred kilometers in america its opening was celebrated in various propaganda films with canada and the United States War Department decided to build a military highway from rio
Wide River Valleys and loose forests and deserted landscapes the alaska highway lives up to the legend even today. The wilderness starts at the roadside. The u. S. Army built the highway in World War Two and its still the only land connection between alaska and the other us states. The magnificent nature around it has been preserved and it still feels as remote and lonely up here as it always has. In one thousand nine hundred forty two the small town of dawson creek in canada was made the starting point of the alaska highway. This is where the railroad ended and the u. S. Army wanted to create a link from there through Northern Canada to alaska to prepare for any attack by the japanese. The new wilderness road was to be completed within months and unbelievable fifteen hundred miles long about twenty four hundred kilometers in america its opening was celebrated in various propaganda films with canada and the United States War Department decided to build a military highway from rio grand
and the hubbard plaisir is even longer at one hundred twenty kilometers. because. it has recently been generating some sad headlines in twenty sixteen the ice had receded so much that the glaciers outflow changed direction. instead of north to the yukon river and the bering sea the meltwater now flows southwest into the. pacific ocean. the former outflow has become a barren sandy area and the glacier no longer feeds clo any lake itself. but here it s there since for a sense the river has almost dried up here the water level of lake lonnie has dropped by almost two to three meters the island hey it was completely surrounded by water in twenty fourteen so it was a real island and today you can hike out there. geologists are now using radar to explore the former river deltas
the valley. the cascade. flows north for about seventy kilometers. and the hubbard glazier is even longer at one hundred twenty kilometers. because. it has recently been generating some sad headlines in twenty sixteen the ice had receded so much that the glaciers outflow changed direction. instead of north to the yukon river and the bering sea the meltwater now flows southwest into the. pacific ocean. the former outflow has become a barren sandy area and the glacier no longer feeds clo any lake itself. but here it s there since for since the river has almost dried up here the water level of lake lonnie has dropped by almost two to three meters the island today was