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Alaska Zippos                                                                                   

Alaska is the largest and least densely State in the Union. Generations of Alaska natives have established themselves along the 34,000 miles of rugged coastlines, maintaining  traditions such as whaling, hunting and fishing, their arts and crafts evident in hundreds remote villages.  It's economy is based on extraction of crude oil, natural gas, coal, gold, precious metals, other mining, seafood processing, timber and wood products. The Zippo lighter's reliability and functionality made it an especially valuable if not essential tool in Alaska's rough and rugged environment.

 
Gold mining scene with attached gold nugget - Canada Zippo 1955 Zippo for the US Naval Station Adak, Alaska, playing an important role during

This 1950's Zippo manufactured in Canada depicts a dog sledding team pulling the sled through the snowy wilderness and brings to mind the famous Iditarod race. The attached nugget and the sledding team are made of gold, making this one of the most unusual Zippo's in the Zippo Gallery.   1955 Zippo for the US Naval Station  a submarine surveillance center in Adak, Alaska.  The graphic is the Totem Pole at Adak.  
1962 Zippo Wakefield's Alaska King Crab    1965 Zippo for the "Great Alaskan Earthquake 1964" with fissure and clock March 27 at 5:36 pm   1971 Zippo Rainier Beer - Alaska…North to the Future - slim   1972 Zippo Teller, Alaska- with ferocious polar bear
1962 Zippo for Wakefield's Alaska King Crab.  Wakefield Fisheries had a plant processing crab and shrimp in Sand Point on the Alaska pan handle in the 1960's and 70's .   1965 Zippo commemorating the "Great Alaskan Earthquake 1964" The graphic shows a  fissure and clock at 5:36 pm on March 27.  At 8.4 to 8.6 on the Richter Scale, it was the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America.   1971 slim Zippo for Rainier Beer and reads "Alaska…North to the Future". Based in Seattle, Washington, the "Gateway to Alaska", Rainier Brewery has been a mainstay in the Pacific Northwest  since  1893.   1972 Zippo for Teller, Alaska with ferocious looking polar bear. Teller is a remote village of 268 people northwest of Nome on the Seward Peninsula.
1972 Zippo for Galena, Alaska- Shows a great graphic of a snowmobiler   1972 Zippo for Alaska HiWay- Shows "End of the Alaska Highway" monument at Delta Junction, Alaska. This is Historic Mile 1422.   1972 Zippo Wakefield's Alaska King Crab   1972 Zippo Petersburg Fisheries, Inc.- Red Viking ship
1972 Zippo for Galena, Alaska- with a great graphic of a snowmobiler.   1972 Zippo for Alaska Hi Way- with a graphic of the "End of the Alaska Highway" monument at Delta Junction, Alaska.   1972 Zippo for  Wakefield Fisheries with an Alaska king crab. King crab fishing is carried out during the winter months in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.   1972 Zippo with a red Viking ship for Petersburg Fisheries, Inc., the oldest operating seafood plant in Alaska.
1972 Zippo Kotzebue, Alaska- Shows Eskimo in canoe with spear   1972 slim Zippo U.S. Naval Station Adak, Alaska Birthplace of the Wind (T&C process) (slim)1972 slim Zippo U.S. Naval Station Adak, Alaska Birthplace of the Wind (T&C process) (slim)   1975 Zippo with American Flag "Alaska 49th State"
1971 Zippo for Kotzebue, Alaska. Shows an Eskimo in canoe with spear.  Kotzebue is located north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western coast.   1972 slim Zippo with a Town & Country logo of the U.S. Naval Station in Adak, Alaska,  "Birthplace of the Wind". The Station was closed in 1987 and Adak with many facilities shut down, becoming almost a ghost town.   1975 Zippo with the American Flag "Alaska - 49th State". Alaska become a State on January 3, 1959.
1977 Zippo for Alaska Airlines   1977 Zippo with Polar Bear marked "Alaska"   1985 Zippo with Alaska Ferry
1977 Zippo for Alaska Airlines where "The sky's the limit".   1977 Zippo with polar bear marked "Alaska". This bear is somewhat smaller than the Teller polar bear  on the 1972 Zippo shown above.   1985 Zippo with Alaska Ferry.  The Alaska Marine Highway System's ferries serve many communities in Southeastern Alaska that have no road access, so the vessels  transport people, freight, and vehicles and are considered to be part of the National Highway System.