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| Title: "Inside Passage Alaska Aurora" by Alaska Artist Dianne Roberson Hendrix Northern Lights | Alaska Stock # DA 078 Medium: Digital Art | Color Print on glossy paper Size: 20" wide by 16" High $175.00 Size: 14" wide by 11" High $85.00 Description: A fishing boat travels under the Northern Lights. Also know as the Aurora Borealis, these lights are best viewed in the cold dark winter months in Alaska. The beautiful blaze of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, begins when energetic electrically charged particles accelerate along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with gas atoms, causing the atoms to give off light. The air lights up rather like what happens in a fluorescent light tube. The colors reflect gases, the most usual yellow-green color coming from oxygen. Red coloring is also due to oxygen with a contribution from nitrogen and violet is due to nitrogen. The charged particles originate from the sun, and it is the “weather” conditions on the sun that decide whether or not we will see the aurora. Alaska leads the states in the annual value of fish caught by the commercial fishing industry. The state has a yearly fish catch valued at about $1 billion. Fishermen in the industry catch cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, rockfish, sablefish, salmon, and smelt. Dungeness crab, king crab, scallops, sea urchins, shrimp, and snow crab are also harvested, as are herring eggs. Kodiak and Unalaska/Dutch Harbor are the chief fishing ports. Alaska’s Inside Passage includes more than 1,000 islands as well as a rainforest. The 16.8-million- acre Tongass National Forest is the largest forest managed by the U.S. Park Service. This print is treated with an ultra violent protective coating. It will be rolled and inserted into a mailing tube. I will also insert a sheet with information about this print. The print will be mailed first class by the U.S. Postal Service and insured. |
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