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

Residents in Alaska’s most populous region rely on gas from the aging Cook Inlet basin.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

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

From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023

Their tsunami model traced the resulting wave toward Anchorage through the long Cook Inlet, which has uncommonly large tides.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023

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

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023

Range—"Boreal forest region from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains west of Edmonton, Alberta, east to Labrador Peninsula; also a disconnected area in Alaska from Bristol Bay to Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound."

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.