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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Alaska Peninsula

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021

There are probably more than 100,000 sq. m. of cod-banks from 22 to 00 fathoms deep in Bering oea and E. or the Alaska Peninsula.

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