Port Protection Alaska” returns Tuesday, March 11 at 9 p.m. ET on National Geographic. Stream the season 8 premiere for free ...

After over a week of cold temperatures, physical and mental tests and back-and-forth competition, the winner of the 2025 ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves a fateful moment, frozen in time.

Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance. Click image for a larger view At the time of contact with Russian explorers in the mid-18th century, Alaska was occupied by ...

For what it’s worth, the Alaskan delegation prefers the “Denali” name: In 1975 the Alaska Geographic Names Board changed Mount McKinley to Denali and, at former Gov. Jay Hammond’s request ...

Responding to the lack of snow across Southcentral Alaska and other regions, state officials on Thursday ordered an early ...

A brand new season of Port Protection Alaska premieres on National Geographic Tuesday, March 11 at 9/8c. On this season, the summer and fall are proving grounds for the Port Protection residents.