Q 01/05

Kenai Fjords is the closest national park to which Alaska city, linked to it by the Seward Highway?

A) Fairbanks

B) Juneau

C) Anchorage

D) Homer

Answer · why

C) Anchorage

Anchorage lies roughly 130 miles up the Seward Highway, a National Scenic Byway that stays open all year even when winter snow shuts the park's own ro...

Q 02/05

Roughly how much of Alaska's Kenai Mountains lies buried under the Harding Icefield?

A) About 7 square miles

B) About 70 square miles

C) About 700 square miles

D) About 7,000 square miles

Answer · why

C) About 700 square miles

About 700 square miles of ice bury the range so deeply that only its highest summits break the surface, as lonely rock islands known as nunataks.

Q 03/05

President Harding, namesake of Kenai Fjords' great icefield, visited Alaska in 1923 to mark the completion of what?

A) The Alaska Highway

B) The Alaska Railroad

C) The Richardson Highway

D) The Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Answer · why

B) The Alaska Railroad

The Alaska Railroad was finished when Harding drove a golden spike at Nenana on 15 July 1923; he died in San Francisco less than three weeks later, be...

Q 04/05

About how much snow falls on the Harding Icefield in an average year?

A) About 6 inches

B) About 6 feet

C) About 60 feet

D) About 600 feet

Answer · why

C) About 60 feet

About 60 feet arrives on moist winter air off the Gulf of Alaska, and the summers are too cool to melt it all, so each year's leftover snow is pressed...

Q 05/05

The word 'fjord' in Kenai Fjords National Park came into English from which language?

A) Russian

B) Norwegian

C) Finnish

D) Gaelic

Answer · why

B) Norwegian

Norwegian lent English the word but uses it more loosely at home: in Norway a 'fjord' can be any long, narrow stretch of water, including some freshwa...