Alaska (state)

Alaska
Also called:	The Land of the Midnight Sun
Type:	State
Location:	United States of America
First mentioned in:	The Enemy of the World
First appearance:	The Land of the Dead
Appearances:	PROSE: Dying in the Sun AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

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Alaska, also known as "The Land of the Midnight Sun", was a state of the United States of America.

Geography

Alaska was separated from East Russia by the Bering Strait, (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"]) with the Fifth Doctor calling Alaska the "stepping stone between America and Asia". (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead)

History

Early history

During the Pliocene, land bridges linked Alaska to Asia. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself ^[+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])

According to the Fifth Doctor, Alaska was first settled over 12,000 years prior to the 20th century. The Koyukon people were the descendants of the original settlers. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["The Land of the Dead (audio story)"])

20th century

Film director Leonard De Sande filmed The Cold Blooded in Alaska in 1944. There he discovered the Selyoids trapped in ice inside a cave. (PROSE: Dying in the Sun ^[+]Loading...["Dying in the Sun (novel)"])

In at least the 1960s, the United States was drilling for oil in Alaska. (PROSE: Time and Relative ^[+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"])

When the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa visited Alaska in 1994, they both found its pristine ice fields "beautiful". The Doctor called it the "stepping stone between America and Asia", noting that it was sparsely populated because it wasn't "the most hospitable of environments", despite being rich in natural resources like oil. He went on to say that humans not native to the state were really only interested in Alaska for "commercial or strategic" reasons, but that natives had successfully lived off the land for thousands of years. He also claimed that the name derived from Alyeska, the Aleutian word for "great land". (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["The Land of the Dead (audio story)"])

Despite this, the Seventh Doctor claimed that he had never been to Alaska. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ^[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)"]) He, Ace and Hex did visit Alaska in 1934 and defeated the Karnas'koi, a group of Elder Gods. (AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge ^[+]Loading...["Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (audio story)"])

21st century

Following the Planetary Relocation Incident, Martha Jones visited Alaska. (AUDIO: Dissected ^[+]Loading...["Dissected (audio story)"])

In 2018, Ramón Salamander drank specially-made wine from Alaska. (TV: The Enemy of the World ^[+]Loading...["The Enemy of the World (TV story)"])

Later history

In the 51st century Alaska was part of, or allied to, the Supreme Alliance. They set up neutron blockades on the frozen Arctic when war loomed between the Supreme Alliance and the Icelandic Alliance. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane ^[+]Loading...["The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)"])