Alaska Peninsula

American  

noun

1. a peninsula in SW Alaska. 500 miles (800 km) long.

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Alaska Peninsula British  

noun

1. an extension of the mainland of SW Alaska between the Pacific and the Bering Sea, ending in the Aleutian Islands. Length: about 644 km (400 miles)

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Example Sentences

This pattern pushed frigid Arctic air southeastward across the Alaska Peninsula.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Residents of King Cove, a remote town on the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula, have sought to exchange land to build a road through the refuge.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023

It was generated by an 8.2 earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula but brought less than one foot of water to our shores.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2021

Wednesday, and struck just south of the Alaska Peninsula, nearly 500 miles southwest of Anchorage.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

A bear-hunt on the Alaska Peninsula, Admiralty or Montagu Islands, is an event of a lifetime, and with a bag limit of one brown bear, the species would be quite safe from extermination.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple