• Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Península de Azuero, Panama Alaska Peninsula Cleveland Peninsula Kenai Peninsula Seward...
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  • Baldwin and Seward Peninsulas; the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta; Southwest Alaska; Bristol Bay; Alaska Peninsula; and remote areas of the Alaska Panhandle and Interior...
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    The Alaska Purchase saw the Russian Empire transfer Alaska to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023)...
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    The Alaska Railroad (reporting mark ARR) is a Class II railroad that operates freight and passenger trains in the state of Alaska. The railroad's mainline...
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    Angagkitaqnuuq; Dena'ina: Angidahtnu; Russian: Селдовия) is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. Its population was 255 at the 2010 census, down...
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    Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood...
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    area in the U.S. Anchorage is in Southcentral Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain...
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    Alaska Route 1 (AK-1) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It runs from Homer northeast and east to Tok by way of Anchorage...
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    The 2020 Alaska mid-air collision occurred at approximately 8:27 a.m. on July 31, 2020, when a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver collided with a Piper PA-12 over...
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    Yupik peoples (category Alaska Native ethnic groups)
    as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik Bay in Alaska. Siberian Yupik, including Naukan, Chaplino, and—in...
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    Ninilchik River (category Rivers of Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska)
    (34 km) stream on the Kenai Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska. From headwaters near the west coast of the peninsula, the river flows south, parallel...
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    of Alaska (Tlingit: Yéil T'ooch’) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula...
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    U.S. state of Alaska. Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska. The population...
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  • Alutiiq language (category Indigenous languages of Alaska)
    southwestern Alaska, but is considered a distinct language. It has two major dialects: Koniag Alutiiq: spoken on the upper part of the Alaska Peninsula and on...
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    stream on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Beginning near Bald Mountain on the eastern side of the lower peninsula, if flows generally...
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    shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The crossing would provide a connection...
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    now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by Alaska Native groups. The name "Alaska" derives from...
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    state of Alaska that extends 125 miles (201 km) from Seward to Anchorage. It was completed in 1951 and runs through the scenic Kenai Peninsula, Chugach...
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    of Anchorage, Alaska - south Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska - south Bethel Census Area, Alaska - west Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska - west Chugach...
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  • The Lisburne Peninsula is a peninsula jutting out into the Chukchi Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located at the westernmost...
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    Kuzitrin River (category Rivers of Nome Census Area, Alaska)
    (153 km) long, on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at Kuzitrin Lake in the central region of the peninsula and flows 95 miles (153 km)...
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    States National Forest in south central Alaska. Covering portions of Prince William Sound, the Kenai Peninsula and the Copper River Delta, it was formed...
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    / 55.072125; -162.318040. King Cove is on the Pacific side of the Alaska Peninsula. It is 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Cold Bay and 620 miles (1,000 km)...
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    Fure's Cabin (category Houses in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska)
    trail between Naknek Lake and Lake Grosvenor [de] in Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula in the US. Also known as Roy Fure's Trapping...
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    Bering Strait (category Straits of Alaska)
    and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia-United States maritime...
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    official authority for its composition, but it extends in de facto terms from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in the north, to the southern cities of Puerto Montt and...
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    The 2020 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election...
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    Kvichak River (category Rivers of Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska)
    southwestern Alaska in the United States. It flows southwest from Lake Iliamna to Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula. The communities...
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  • Meshik River (category Rivers of Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska)
    Meshik River is a stream, 31 miles (50 km) long, on the Alaska Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Beginning on the flanks of Mount Aniakchak in Aniakchak...
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    Alaskan Creole people (category Alaska Native ethnic groups)
    an Alaskan Russian ethnic group. They descend from citizens of colonial Alaska, known as Russian Creoles (Russian: Креолы, romanized: Kreoly). As an ethnic...
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