The bush was split into 5-6 districts (depending on how one defines it), with one district stretching all the from the Bering Sea way to suburban areas of Fairbanks. All are high-numbered districts. The old huge interior bush house district 6 was split up, with the bulk of the population put in HD-39 with Nome. That district now stretches from Nome to the Canadian border.
Arguably more like they added Nome to the old 6th, removed the southwestern prong instead, and renumbered it the 39th.
Numbering starts in Fairbanks and spirals southward toward Anchorage, then the panhandle, then the bush.
Why renumber? I don't get that, but whatever...
You mean Bethel.
Fairbanks looks ugly and gerrymandered (though I'd have to compare closely with precincts maps to see if it actually
is... and even then only in the Senate map.) Haven't looked at Anchorage yet, though what I hear about merging Eagle Pass and parts of downtown Anchorage sounds ugly.