Alaska

Asteroid Number 19148
Discovered December 28, 1989 by E. W. Elst at Haute Provence

While searching for de la Croyère's mythical land, the Second Kamchatka expedition reached Alaska in July 1741. Georg Wilhelm Steller, the expedition's naturalist, spotted the blue jay Cyanocitta stelleri, a bird he recognized as not native to Asia.

The Last Frontier State
Alaska Daylight Time