Cook Inlet

American  

noun

1. an inlet of the Gulf of Alaska. 150 miles (240 km) long.

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Cook Inlet British  

noun

1. an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska

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Cook Inlet

In 1976, the federal government granted the native-owned corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc., or CIRI, rights to Johnson Tract, an area near Tuxedni Bay known to have rich mineral deposits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

It also serves as a winter foraging site for Cook Inlet beluga whales, whose numbers have dropped to around 300.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Alaska’s Cook Inlet, according to some estimates, could supply all the state’s power.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023

An entrenched public perception holds that Anchorage is protected from tsunamis by the long, shallow Cook Inlet.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023

Shortly after this we broke camp and started back to Cook Inlet, which we reached October 2.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

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