Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Americannoun
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It is roughly the same length as the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
To avoid problems with the permafrost, 420 miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline were built on an elevated support system that keeps the pipe about six feet above the ground.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 17, 2021
Her father, who was born on the Pawnee reservation in Oklahoma, met her mother, “a cute little Irish woman,” in Alaska, where he’d moved to work on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
The Alyeska company shut down the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline as a precaution, although there were no immediate reports of leaks or other damage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
Comparisons have also been drawn between McCandless and Carl McCunn, an affable absentminded Texan who moved to Fairbanks during the 1970s oil boom and found lucrative employment on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction project.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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