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A kayaker navigates through a melt pond in the Juneau Icefield, Coast Mountains, Tongass National Forest.

The quirky Alaskan town where you should expect the unexpected

When you visit Alaska you expect to see ice, and I'm seeing plenty of it just outside Juneau.

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Meade Glacier, Alaska.

Why you need to see this Alaskan glacier now

Like many of the other icefield glaciers, Meade is in retreat, losing about nine metres of ice depth a year.

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Katrina Lobley
Katrina Lobley
Alaska's mythical wild coastline: Princess Cruise.

Glaciers, lumberjacks, and bears: Cruising Alaska's mythical wild coastline

Encountering glaciers, gold, bears and beads on a seven-day Voyage of the Glaciers cruise on Star Princess from downtown Vancouver

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Katrina Lobley
Katrina Lobley
Anchorage, Alaska, and it's stunning backdrop.

The three-minute guide to Anchorage, Alaska

Log cabins, beer and taxidermy, it's all on tap in Alaska's most populous city.

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Katrina Lobley
Katrina Lobley
Cruising Alaska's coast on Holland America.

A landscape that's like visiting another planet

Cruising here you have access to the bluest, cleanest and best-tasting water in the world.

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Water world: Glacier Bay National Park.

What it's like to visit Alaska for the first time

Alaska offers a curious combination of the insubstantial, the surreal and the alarmingly down to earth.

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You need to watch your step on the glacier hike tour.

Into the wild: Alaska's most thrilling adventure tours

Alaska is blessed with an extravagant bounty of geological wonders... waiting for you to explore.

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A bull moose during the fall rut season in Alaska.

Don't be a goose with a moose on the loose

Much like Australians regale visitors with tales of drop bears and crocodiles, Alaskans talk up their moose and their bears – and it pays to listen.

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Luke Slattery

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The USA's biggest state is also big on sights and price. But nowhere else in the world can you traverse such a dramatic coastline and witness orcas frolic in wild seas, boulders of glacial ice crash into the ocean below or breaching humpback whales in a single trip. Inland, its national parks have hungry brown bears catching salmon in river rapids. Alaska may be hard work, but it's rewarding.

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The USA's biggest state is also big on sights and price. But nowhere else in the world can you traverse such a dramatic coastline and witness orcas frolic in wild seas, boulders of glacial ice crash into the ocean below or breaching humpback whales in a single trip. Inland, its national parks have hungry brown bears catching salmon in river rapids. Alaska may be hard work, but it's rewarding.

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