Tourism in Juneau, Alaska

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Juneau is the capital city of the State of Alaska, the United States, since 1906 and is located on a strip of mainland Southeast Alaska, along the Strait of Gastineau. Juneau is the capital of the state of only the United States can not be connected by roads. The only way to get there is a plane or boat. The population was 30690 inhabitants, making it the third largest city in the state of Alaska, Anchorage and beyond. After the discovery of gold, and moved from a camp in the prospectors, and really established the city in 1881, in honor of the French Canadian Juno Joseph Miner, a native of St. Paul the Hermit, near Montreal. After a lifetime of gold prospectors, digging underground mines and wide at the beginning of XX th century, which is still in operation until World War II. One can still see remnants of the Douglas Island, Juneau connected by a bridge.