Why Can’t Canada Touch The Pacific Ocean? The Alaska Panhandle Dispute Explained.
Canada holds the world’s longest coastline, yet along 500 miles of its northwest border, it is blocked from the Pacific Ocean by a narrow strip of Alaskan rock, ice, and fjords.
When tens of thousands of miners rushed into the Yukon during the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, access to deepwater ports became a matter of national survival. Discover how an 1825 Russian-British agreement, the 1867 U.S. purchase of Alaska, and a controversial 1903 international tribunal permanently reshaped North America’s border.
Watch to explore the real story behind one of history’s most fascinating geopolitical border disputes.
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