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Seward Peninsula

American  

noun

  1. a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.


Seward Peninsula British  
/ ˈsjuːəd /

noun

  1. a peninsula of W Alaska, on the Bering Strait. Length: about 290 km (180 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The work tested the accuracy of three different AI approaches against field data collected by Los Alamos researchers from three watersheds with patchy permafrost on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska.

From Science Daily Jan. 17, 2024

The attack occurred in the remote village of Wales, Alaska, which is on the western edge of the Seward Peninsula that juts into the Bering Sea toward Russia.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2023

The bear entered the village of Wales on Tuesday afternoon, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, and began chasing people, police said.

From BBC Jan. 18, 2023

He took a freight plane to Nome, then found a bush pilot to fly him to Brevig Mission, on the western end of the Seward Peninsula, with no roads leading in or out.

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2022

The strait between Siberia’s Chukotsky Peninsula and Alaska’s Seward Peninsula is now only 56 miles wide and about 120 feet deep, shallower than many lakes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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