Cruise Ship Terms
The side of the ship that faces the left when looking towards the bow.
What is port?
The official name of the road that connects the contiguous US to Alaska through Canada.
What is the Alaska-Canadian Highway?
This is the largest city in Alaska.
What is Anchorage?
The name of the river you journeyed aboard the Riverboat Discovery?
What is the Chena river?
The Athabaskan people call the "Great Mountain" this
What is Denali?
This man was responsible for the purchase of Alaska from the Russians, at the cost of two cents per acre in 1867 ($7.2M)
Who is William Seward?
This is the term for the back of the cruise ship
What is stern?
This is the Canadian territory that serves as the halfway point along the highway.
What is the Yukon?
This town, located near Fairbanks, is known for its year-round Christmas theme and Santa Claus House.
What is the North Pole?
The official name of the pipeline you stood under at Gold Dredge 8.
What is the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline (or Alyeska Pipeline)?
The name of the tour you took in the National Park.
What is the Tundra Wilderness Tour?
This is the person who is responsible for navigating the vessel on the ship.
Who is the captain?
This is the primary reason the highway was originally constructed in 1942.
What is military defense (for WWII)?
The Capitol City of Alaska
What is Juneau?
Fairbanks is visited in the winter months to experience what phenomenon in the night sky?
What are the Northern Lights?
This lodge has a great view of "The Great One" from its back deck (with a chainsaw hanging from its ceiling). She also was a huge advocate for the building of the Parks highway.
What is Mary's Mount McKinnley Lodge?
This is the term for a cruise ship's "parking" fee or the process of docking at a port.
What is berthing?
This is the name of the border crossing between Alaska and the Yukon Territory on the highway.
What is Beaver Creek?
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline originates in this northern city.
What is Prudhoe Bay?
The Alaskan Salmon Bake in Fairbanks takes place in what park?
What is Pioneer Park?
The "big five" animals in the National Park that you all hope to see.
What are bear, caribou, moose, wolf, and Dall Sheep.
This is the name of the cruise ship terminal in Vancouver.
What is Canada Place?
This is the name of the mountain range that the highway traverses through the Yukon (name the National Park and this would suffice).
St. Elias Mountains in Kluane National Park.
This is the name of the imaginary line of latitude that defines where the sun does not set on the summer solstice.
What is the Arctic Circle?
The Museum of the North in Fairbanks now posesses the bus that this gentlemen died in, made into a best-selling book and movie "Into the Wild"
Who is Christopher McCandless?
The Great One is in a National Park that was established in what year?
What is 1917?