Asteroid 19148, Alaska, was discovered on December 28, 1989 by Eric W. Elst at Haute Provence Observatory in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. It has a period of 5 years, 192 days.
It was named for the American state of Alaska, which was first sighted by Europeans in 1741 (the Russian expedition known as the Great Northern Expedition or Second Kamchatka Expedition, commanded by Vitus Bering). One of the two ships of the expedition, Bering's St. Peter, which had gotten separated from the St. Paul, commanded by Aleksey Chirikov, landed on Kayak Island in the Gulf of Alaska looking for water, and the expedition's naturalist, Georg Wilhelm Steller, hiked around the island gathering samples. In the process, Steller found a bird, now known as Steller's jay or Cyanocitta stelleri, which he recognized as not native to Asia.
Mount McKinley in Denali Borough, Alaska; its summit is the highest point in North America, Alaska and the United States
Steller's jay
The meaning of asteroid Alaska seems to be: having to do with Alaska or Alaskans, cold, "not feeling the love", possibly wild and untamed
The glyph for Alaska is mine and is derived from the state flag of Alaska.