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Welcome to America's last frontier...
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... where the final lumbering
remnants of the lce Age...
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... the massive and
awe-inspiring glaciers...
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... calve cathedral-sized
icebergs into the sea...
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... where nature's bounty unfolds
in a panoply of flora and fauna...
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... the like of which is seen
nowhere else on the planet.
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From the ocean depths,
plumbed by ageless cetaceans...
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... to azure skies,
where the mighty eagle soars.
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This land abounds with creatures
great and small, strange and majestic.
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It is a land steeped in tradition...
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... its mists redolent of the hearty
souls of men who have gone to sea.:
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Tlingit and Haida...
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...lnuit and Aleut...
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...Russian and Norwegian.
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Their languages and deeds...
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... Iingering on in the names of our
countless islands and passageways.
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A land that has lifted its siren call
to the bold and adventurous...
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... to those willing to risk their lives
for the promise of untold fortune...
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...be it from fur, fin, from the heaven-
pointing spires of old-growth spruce...
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... or from the buried treasures of gold
or black energy-rich petroleum.
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A land visited each year
by the relentless and mysterious salmon.
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Each river and stream welcoming home
the king and sockeye....
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--the coho and dog, pink or humpback...
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...which is smashed into cans...
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...and quick-cooked to give the
colourful local folks something to do...
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...other than play cards
and scratch their nuts all day.
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A land where that nice old lady
from Fort Lauderdale...
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...who had the stroke
three cabins down...
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...was probably parked next to the
thawed-out halibut you'll eat tonight...
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...while your floating hotel
chugs through the Hecate Strait...
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...to deliver its precious
load of geriatrics...
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...to the hungry
Visa-card-accepting denizens...
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...of our northernmost and
most mosquito-infested state!
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So?
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What's " redolent"?