ak

Noun
  1. is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    has:
    • alaskan pipeline, trans-alaska pipeline - an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez
    • iditarod trail - a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome
    • denali national park - a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault
    • gates of the arctic national park - a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier
    • katmai national park - a national park in Alaska featuring mountains
    • kenai fjords national park - a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines
    • kobuk valley national park - a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites
    • lake clark national park - a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites
    • wrangell-st. elias national park - the largest national park of the United States; located in Alaska
    • aleutian islands, aleutians - an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
    • capital of alaska, juneau - the state capital of Alaska
    • anchorage - a city in south central Alaska
    • nome - a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
    • sitka - a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906
    • skagway - a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush
    • valdez - a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world
    • seward peninsula - a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle
    • alexander archipelago - a group of islands off southeastern Alaska
    • alaska peninsula - a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands)
    • alaska range - a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley
    • denali fault - a major open geological fault in Alaska
    • hubbard, mount hubbard - a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)
    • inland passage, inside passage - a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska
    • kodiak, kodiak island - an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784
    • denali, mckinley, mount mckinley, mt. mckinley - a mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America (20,300 feet high)
    • great mendenhall glacier, mendenhall glacier - a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
    • prudhoe bay - a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968
    • st. elias mountains, st. elias range - a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory
    is a part of: america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
    same as: alaska, last frontier

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