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Denali National Park and Preserve, large natural area, south-central Alaska, U.S. Established in 1980, it comprises Denali National Park (the successor to the former Mount McKinley National Park [1917]) and Denali National Preserve (1980). Highlights of the park include Denali (Mount McKinley), the large glaciers of the Alaska Range, other tall peaks (including Mounts Foraker and Hunter), and abundant wildlife. The park and preserve’s combined area is 9,492 square miles (24,584 square km).

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Alaska, constituent state of the United States of America. It was admitted to the union as the 49th state on January 3, 1959. Alaska lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent, and the Alaska Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the Western Hemisphere. Because the 180th meridian

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Conservation, study of the loss of Earth’s biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place or on the entire planet Earth, including its ecosystems, species, populations, and genes. Conservation

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United States, country in North America, a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the