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

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

The Chignik earthquake erupted about 20 miles beneath the seafloor off the Alaska Peninsula.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023

The quake struck in the ocean 75 miles southeast of Chignik, Alaska, just south of the Alaska Peninsula, Wednesday at 11:15 p.m, according to the tsunami warning center.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

He told me several times of the great numbers of bears that he had often seen in a certain bay on the Alaska Peninsula, and advised me most strongly to try this place.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various