Cruising the Inside Passage of the ‘Last Frontier’ of Alaska

A cruise through Alaska’s Inside Passage — a network of waterways, glaciers and coastal towns — shows that “Seward’s folly,” referring to the U.S. purchase of the land from Russia in 1867, was a smart move. The 49th and largest U.S. state is Mother Nature’s (and once my own mother’s) paradise.

Denmark is about 50 times smaller than Greenland with only 2 percent of its land space (43,000 vs. 2 million km2). However, Greenland has 1 percent of Denmark’s population (58,000 vs. 5.9 million).