Legal Definition of pending. 1  1 : during the time of. 2  2 : while awaiting : in the time preceding held in escrow pending the outcome of the suit free pending trial.
Geography of Alaska. Land area: With 586,412 square miles, or about 365,000,000 acres, Alaska is the largest state in the union and; one-fifth the size of the lower 48 states.Area per person: Approximately .91 square mile per person.djacent salt water: North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean. Alaska-Canada border: 1,538 miles long; length of boundary between the Arctic Ocean and Mount St. Elias, 647 miles; Southeast border with British Columbia and Yukon Territory, 710 miles; water boundary, 181 miles.
The Alaska Range is a relatively narrow, 650-km-long (400 mi) mountain range in the southcentral region of the U.S. state of Alaska, from Lake Clark at its southwest end to the White River in Canada 's Yukon Territory in the southeast.The highest mountain in North America, Denali, is in the Alaska Range.The range is the highest in the world outside of Asia and the Andes.n 1849 Constantin Grewingk applied the name Tschigmit to this mountain range. A map made by the General Land Office in 1869 calls the southwestern part of the Alaska Range the Chigmit Mountains and the northeastern part the Beaver Mountains.