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Juneau City and Borough is a borough located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alexander Archipelago in the U.S. State of Alaska. The city is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau, and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of 2000 the population is 30,711. The borough seat is the city of Juneau. Juneau is the only incorporated place, because the city and borough boundaries coincide. Juneau is the only mainland state capital in the US which has no roads leading to it. The only way to get there is with a boat or plane.

Juneau is the capital city of Alaska and is located in the Alaskan Panhandle. The State Legislature meets in the Territorial Building.

There are several glaciers near hiking trails (including the Mendenhall Glacier), one bridge to Douglas Island, an airport, and dead-end roads. A car brought to Juneau must be put on a barge or ferry first.

The Auke and Taku people have lived here for thousands of years. They are Tlingit, with rich artistic traditions including carving, weaving, orating, singing and dancing. After gold was found, a mining camp sprung up. The town was organized in 1881Events January 16- 24 ? Siege of Geok Tepe ? Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company February 5 Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated. February 13 First issu. By the turn of the century, the placer miners had wandered on, but large underground mines were being developed. Juneau was a gritty mining town up through the 1940s. The mines shut down during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough under wartime orders, as they were not considered essential.

After the completion of the Alaska Pipeline (to take petroleumNodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Latin petrus rock and oleum oil), mineral oil or crude oil sometimes colloquially called black gold is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which exists in the uppe from the ArcticThe Arctic Ocean located entirely in the north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean), and the shallowest. It occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an are shore to the PacificFor other meanings of pacific see pacific (disambiguation). The Pacific Ocean (from the Spanish Pacifico meaning peaceful is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179. 7 million km² (69. 4 mill coast), Juneau grew with the growth of state government.

Juneau was named after gold prospector Joe JuneauJoseph Juneau ( 1836 1899) was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in Saint-Paul-L'Hermite, in Quebec. He is most famous for co-founding (with Richard Harris) the city of Juneau, Alaska, United States. The first major gold discovery in Juneau. The TlingitThe Tlingit ( Lingit ) language is the language of the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada. It is considered to be a branch of the Na-Dene language family. Tlingit is very endangered, with about 500 native speakers still living, essentia name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni, and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Aak'w in Tlingit. The Taku River just south of Juneau was named after the cold t'aak wind that blows down from the mountains and is the source of some of Juneau's more unpleasant weather.