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ANIAKCHAK CALDERA. Located near the eastern end of the Aleutian island chain, the area is a geological oddity-a volcanic crater 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter and dotted with smaller volcanoes. Inside the crater is a remarkable blue-green lake on which seaplanes carrying sightseers can land. The more adventuresome can canoe down the Aniakchak River, which flows out of the lake through a cleft in the crater wall and drops some 600 meters (2,000 ft.) and 43 kilometers (27 miles) to the North Pacific...
CAPE KRUSENSTERN. A remnant of the vanished Bering land bridge, the cape lies on the route along which man traveled to North America from Asia. The area includes 114 sea-sculpted beach ridges, which contain spearpoints and other artifacts that record in chronological order every major cultural period associated with Eskimo prehistory...
GATES OF THE ARCTIC. Above the Arctic Circle in the central Brooks Range, the Gates of the Arctic is the crown jewel of Alaska's proposed parklands, a haunting, austere land of towering peaks and unspoiled wilderness. White, curly-horned Ball sheep, caribou, wolves and other game are found in the park. Nunamiut Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians venture into its vastness to hunt these animals for food...
Some Alaskans believe the Department of the Interior is land-happy. "We can't turn everything into a park when the survival of the country is at stake," says Hunting Guide Terry Brady of Anchorage. Others resent what they see as outside interference in Alaskan affairs. "We're being made the scapegoat by a lot of people who draw lines on maps," Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens complained. "The people in the Brooklyn tenements and Florida condominiums look about them and see the devastation that development has caused in their area and they're determined...
Polaroid Founder-Chairman Edwin Land is a showman who likes to use his corporation's annual meetings to stage splashy demonstrations of the company's latest instant-photography miracles. Last week he had a stunning new one to display: instant movies, which Polaroid is preparing to market on a limited basis in the fall after 30 years of experimenting. So Land put on a show that lived up to his own dry comment: "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." Each of the 3,800 shareholders present in Needham, Mass., got a chance to shoot films...