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Prince William Sound

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noun

  1. a sound in the Gulf of Alaska, on the S coast of Alaska: S end of Trans-Alaska oil pipeline at port of Valdez.


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A prototype system by Karasözen and West capable of real-time detection has been in place since August in the area of the Barry Arm of Prince William Sound.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

“It’s just so massive. You’re puny against this whale,” Kevin Williams of Anchorage said Thursday, a week after his adventure with an adult humpback whale in Prince William Sound.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

The Safer holds four times the amount of oil spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

From BBC • May 31, 2023

Decades later, the toll lingers in traces of the spill that remain in Prince William Sound, where some wildlife populations—orcas, for example—have never recovered.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2023

And then there was the wayward genius I bumped into on the shore of Prince William Sound in 1981.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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