It's a fun way to start your day! What is the most popular state bird in the United States? What chemical element is also a state of the United States?
United States Anagrams. We ask our submitters to thoroughly research questions and provide sources where possible. However, unlike Hawaii, Alaska is geographically located in North America. Hawaii, on the other hand, lies 2, miles west of San Francisco, 2, miles southwest of Los Angeles, 3, miles east of Tokyo, and 4, miles northeast of Australia. Well, excluding Hawaii itself of course, the surprising answer: Alaska. Hawaii is closer to Alaska than it is to California.
Also, mainlander generally means caucasian. Once we passed the last homestead, my speed reduced to about 10mph and each time a truck was coming north I think we were the only sedan we saw on that road , I would have to find a place to pull over to allow the other driver to pass.
The day itself was, of course, lovely with blue skies and a warm breeze. Once we arrived at the end of the road, we followed some signs to a sand parking lot and a shack. Upon entering, we were surprised to see a teenage kid, seemingly high on something, staring at a tattered old paperback, though not appearing to actually be reading it. I mean, nothing; A coconut shell, a few rocks, a couple old pictures and some stoner kid hitting us up for two bucks.
He did tell us that we had passed by the turnoff to the actual south point a mile or so back up the road, so I thanked him and we trundled back to the car. It turned out that the lot was for access to a trail down some dangerous cliffs to the Pacific Ocean.
The allure, apparently, is that the beach down below is a rare green sand beach. Certain volcanic rocks, when eroded over millennia, take on a green hue in the sunlight.
We had already been on white and black sand beaches, so we skipped out on the green — though we got a taste of it at the south point anyway. Seen here, right. We found the way to the true south point easily enough and were surprised at the amount of people there. Several unemployed fisherman were sitting around, smoking, drinking, and cursing their small catches. A few insane locals were entertaining themselves by jumping off wooden platforms a couple hundred feet into the boiling surf below.
Yes, there were actually guys jumping off the cliffs in the picture you see below — but I think the worst part would be the vertical ladder climb back up. The wooden platforms they were leaping from were actually boat launch pulley things; apparently it protected the canoes to do it this way rather than walking the half-mile to where the sea met the land gradually. After checking out the cliffs and the scary, unfenced deep holes to certain doom, sunken lava tubes, and crevasses around the south point, we set off the half mile or so to the tip of the island; The South Point proper.
The trail to the south point, though, descends to meet the sea at a rather nondescript spot. The cape provides critical habitats for the Florida gopher tortoise, Cape Sable seaside sparrows, and Mangrove diamondback terrapin. Located on the eastern edge of the island of St. Positioned just above Point Udall is the Millennium Monument which is a stone sundial that was erected to mark the azimuth of the first sunrise in America of the New Year.
The areas surrounding Point Udall are composed of rotated and uplifted volcanic rocks that are said to have been originated during the Upper Cretaceous period. Major areas of the peninsula form a part of the Quoddy Head State Park. Situated near the heart of the Alaska Range in the south-central portion of Alaska is Mount Denali , the highest point in the United States. Formerly known as Mount McKinley, Mount Denali rises to an elevation of 6, m and is the highest mountain peak in the continent of North America.
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