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Sentence Examples The American arctic geologist David Hopkins redefined Beringia to include portions of Alaska and Northeast Asia. It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan. Between 1993 and 2002, seismometers detected 120 subglacial quakes along the east and west coasts of Greenland, 6 in Antarctica, and 1 in Alaska. The Tlingit of Alaska know this, and they are tenaciously preserving the remnants of a culture uncomfortably close to extinction. Handmade in Alaska by Alaskans, red-fox mukluks, with leather or arctic-fox trim, would give you cosy toes this Christmas. When we Green Berets were in Alaska on maneuvers for a long time, nothing tasted better than hobo coffee. One of the most visible monuments to climate change is the dead spruce forests in Alaska. The collection features Athabaskan stories from Alaska and the Yukon, a region that has often been neglected in previous collections. In the fall of 1965, I was working on a term paper for a geography class at the University of Alaska. Champions offers no dance floor or meeting rooms or, as Burke enjoys saying, baked Alaska on the menu to burn the place down. Twice a year, rufous hummingbirds travel 2,500 miles between Central America and Alaska. In 1975, the twenty year old Heimo Korth lit out for Alaska, built a fourteen by fourteen foot cabin, and married a native woman. The Anchorage Daily News memorializes the fallen Scout leaders, who all hailed from Alaska. The smoke of the fire stung his eyes, the cold and the whisky left him like a baked Alaska, alternately burning and freezing. Returning to Alaska he wrote a regular column for an Anchorage newspaper and also worked on sculpting. Alaska has a fund through which the state distributes the economic rewards of its ownership of land and mineral resources. Wilderness always trumps humankind in Alaska, despite the mini-malls and shiny skyscrapers. The peregrine falcon can fly all the way from the Alaska tundra to the prairies of central Argentina. My partner, though, gobbled up her creme caramel and some of my baked Alaska. Several dead beluga whales washed ashore recently in Alaska after dozens were temporarily stranded on mud flats during low tide. Show More Sentences Also in Alaska, there will be upgraded equipment and new radars for early warning. Winds just as strong rage from the Gulf of Alaska, infamous for terrible storms that drop several hundred inches of rain and snow annually. I lived in this small town in Alaska with a ton of friends, and everything seemed perfect. Scientists believe that now fewer than a hundred of the whales ply the waters near Alaska. The Western Cordillera is part of a mountain chain that stretches from Chile in South America to Alaska. Then, we have much more public things that happen, like the aerial shooting of wolves in Alaska. The shovelers and pintails have reached the northern plains and have spread through much of Alaska. Speakers of Yupik inhabit a region consisting of southwestern Alaska and Siberia. He was heard gasping as the steaming composer was steered back to his baked Alaska, simmering with force majeure. It is thought that the aircraft went down in the vicinity of Camden Ray which is west of Kaktovik, Alaska. Schooler is a commercial fishermen and wilderness guide who makes a living in the wilds of Alaska. She wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, and continued to daydream of Alaska. How can someone possibly know whether they can actually make a baked Alaska if they have only ever written about one? My wife and I took our motorhome and went through Alaska and all over Canada. Barnes and his students began to study insects, too, and published research on Alaska yellow jackets and stink bugs. If you live in Alaska, does the air conditioning package help you, or if you live in Florida, do you really need the block heater? It's like hearing reports from Alaska radar stations of peculiar blips on the screen. According to Environment Canada, greenhouse gases have turned our north into a baked Alaska. With a population of some 3,000, Kotzebue has pioneered the use of wind power in Alaska. Alaska was always smiling with spontaneous gestures, had silken hair, soft, wrinkle free, natural skin that was most alluring. Show More Sentences Texas, by contrast, has year-round warmth and could swallow the aggregate population of Alaska without so much as a belch. Take Aleut, the language of the Aleutian Islands, west of Alaska, surviving mainly in just one village. The Japanese had just as thumpingly ejected the U.S. from the Philippines, and had actually occupied American soil in Alaska for most of a year. The native range of the lake trout includes the cold water regions of northern Canada, Alaska, the Great Lakes and parts of New England. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80s, southeast Alaska doesn't feel like a rainforest. Their bones are common in the La Brea tar pits of Los Angeles, and mummified remains have been found in Alaska and Siberia. In the north, the sea otter is thriving in areas off Alaska and British Columbia, and a translocated group off Washington State is growing. I live in Alaska and I'm preparing to move to Thailand on a semi-permanent basis. Sablefish is also known as Alaska cod, butterfish, coalfish, and skilfish. The enormously popular Outing Club runs local climbing, telemarking, and backpacking trips, as well as summer expeditions to South America and Alaska. National Republicans see her in the mold of moderates like Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, but Democrats disagree. I had expected Alaska to be miserably cold, with howling winds and fierce storms. The American Indian or Alaska native classification includes Native Americans, Eskimos, and Aleuts who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or its territories. When the sea ice receded from the coast of Nunivak Island in Alaska, it left 11 muskoxen trapped on a small islet offshore, doomed to die of starvation or thirst. What possible interest could she have in meeting a two-bit, half-term governor of Alaska? The study suggests that birds migrating from Siberia to Alaska are unlikely to carry the virus and that few of those birds ultimately fly farther south. But closer study at the nearby University of Alaska revealed an assortment of bacterial cells, many of which came to life as soon as the ice thawed. This feather was identified as a tail feather from the yellow-shafted race of this species, which generally ranges from central Alaska south to Montana. The tribal people who had not crossed the land bridge to Alaska and colonised the Americas had lives perfectly adapted to the harsh conditions of the frozen north. The Navajo language belongs to the Athapaskan language family that is spoken from beyond the Arctic Circle in Alaska and Canada to the southwestern United States. Show More Sentences That is to say, missionaries trained in the lower 48 states came up to Alaska to establish and serve churches among the Eskimo and Athabaskan peoples. That will see him traversing the Americas, covering the 25,000 kilometres from Ushuia, the world's most southern city, up to the icy wastes of Alaska. A rare silver arctic fox, a tough breed used to treading the icy wastes of Alaska and Canada, has been given a new home and a warm welcome at Selby Animal Sanctuary. They'll be free to dive into the midnight dessert buffet, but a card listing the carb counts of favorites such as baked Alaska will be discreetly left on their pillows. Alaska and Hawaii are not joined to the other forty-eight states. Fairbanks, AK Over the past 50 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of the United States. Oregon and Alaska, like Colorado and Washington, will try their hand at regulating weed like booze. That ratio is more than 40 percent in the U.S. Senate races in Colorado, Alaska and Kentucky. And then you would get flown on a private jet up to Alaska and go on his cruise ship for the party. Those were the last words Charlo Greene said as a reporter for KTVA TV in anchorage, Alaska. We were bound for Bettles, Alaska, which sits 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle and has a current population of 15 people. Bettles, Alaska has been a gateway for intrepid travelers who want to explore the pristine wilderness of the Arctic Circle. The two choppers from the Alaska Air National Guard's 210th Rescue Squadron climbed carefully over the layers of Mount McKinley's clouds while skirting the glacier. Subsistence food for the Inuit of Alaska included whale meat, caribou, moose, walrus, seal, fish, fowl, mountain sheep, bear, hares, squirrels, and foxes. In her TLC series on Alaska, we see Sarah the frontierswoman hunting, skeet-shooting, and beating a captured halibut to death. For example, in Alabama simple possession of steroids can put you away for up to 10 years, while in Alaska steroids aren't even classified as a controlled substance. Alaska political observers say they believe her speech is about currying favor with potential backers for her political future. So Dad had his project reassigned and moved us up to Alaska. Hughes, the son of the poet Ted Hughes, lived in Alaska and worked as a biologist, studying the travel patterns of fish. I sent him some caribou jerky from Alaska to help keep up his strength on the Senate floor. Show More Sentences Over baked Alaska, Mr Brown-Lee informed Alicia that he would be attending a ball next week, held in honour of a colleague's fortieth wedding anniversary. Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. The report comes as the U.S. is preparing to start lowering the first interceptor missiles into newly built silos at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. In this case the trailers are for Mystery, Alaska, Outside Providence, and Happy, Texas and are skipped using the chapter search button on most remotes. In 1925, Nome, Alaska, was ravaged by a diphtheria epidemic. I'm back from Alaska after a miserable red-eye with no sleep. In 1903, the Alaska Panhandle Dispute fixed British Columbia's northwestern boundary. An example of a volcanic arc having both island and continental arc sections is found behind the Aleutian Trench subduction zone in Alaska. The range of the sundew genus stretches from Alaska in the north to New Zealand in the south. The Iditarod Trail, at over 1,000 miles, spans Alaska and connects the coastal cities of Seward and Nome. Buck, the canine hero is kidnapped from his home in the Santa Clara Walley of California and taken to Alaska to become a sleddog. Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States. His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska. The Dena'ina are an Alaska Native people and Athabaskan Native Americans in the United States. Acai Alaska had a few glitches, such as staff not having time to correctly enter the coupon codes into the computer. This time of year, migratory waterbirds are on wintering areas throughout the Pacific flyway, which extends from Alaska to South America. As the owner of a commercial cleaning business in the Bay Area, Yob flies twice a week on Alaska Airlines. The South Klondike Highway knifes inland, paralleling the rail line, and joins the Alaska Highway at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. In Alaska, where groups like the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut do not identify as Indian, people often use the term Native. Public station KYUK in Bethel, Alaska, broadcasts a small amount of programming in Yupik, the language of the local Inuits. Show More Sentences The Company is owned by more than 7,300 Alaska Native shareholders of Athabascan and Southeast Indian, Inupiat, Yupik, Alutiiq and Aleut descent. Located approximately twenty-five minutes outside of Skagway is Dyea, Alaska, the location of Grizzly Falls Ziplining Expedition. Yakutat figures prominently in histories of Alaska and anthropologic studies of its Native people. West is a Professor Emeritus of Zoophysiology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and a researcher on the physiology and ecology of birds. They have to be dug up by hand in the wild and we have the only razor clam plant in Alaska. For those customers who have not yet been rebooked by Northwest, Alaska will attempt to make alternate travel arrangements. Despite these trends, essentially no red alder from southeastern Alaska is processed into secondary wood products. Fecundity of red king crabs off Kodiak Island, Alaska, and an initial look at observer agreement of clutch fullness. In order to reach Alaska and make it back to Japan, the participating JASDF F-15s will have to refuel on the way to and from this excursion. Brittany, who grew up in an Athabascan Indian village, then learned that there were fewer than 200 Alaska Natives on the national donor registry. Nollner, 92, of Galena, Alaska, an Athabascan Indian is proud of his role in the epic struggle to outrun death. The success rate for Kodiak bear hunters in Alaska is between 10 percent and 15 percent. Eric Ness asked the Make-A-Wish Foundation for a trip to Alaska to hunt a kodiak bear and got it. One night watching the news, I saw the Kodiak bears and the problems with destruction of their habitat in Alaska. Byrd was recognized for his work to protect marine species of coastal Alaska, such as auklets, puffins, storm petrels and other seabirds. I am not surprised that Baked Alaska Bingate happened last year when Ian threw his melting ice cream in the bin. Removing refuse from Southeast Alaska communities has, since the late 1990s, become an important component of the barging business in Alaska. Andy Rike to Executive Vice President of Operations for Buccaneer Resources and Buccaneer Alaska. The gray wolf was exterminated by federal and state governments from all of the USA by 1960, except in Alaska and northern Minnesota. What could be more whimsical than Baked Alaska, the flamboyant assemblage of hot meringue and cold ice cream? Show More Sentences Some residents of Alaska suffer from cabin fever when they remain indoors throughout the long, snowy winters. Capelin are widely distributed in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka Peninsula. During the LGM the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of northern North America while Beringia connected Siberia to Alaska. Recent research of sediments in Alaska indicates mammoths survived on the American mainland until 10,000 years ago. Alaska and Hawaii are incontiguous with the other 48 states of the United States. An example of this is the Alaska Permanent Fund and Singapore's Temasek Holdings. In 1959, the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska and it was one of the first companies to strike oil in the North Sea. The charges stemmed from the 1993 to 1995 dumping of hazardous wastes on Endicott Island, Alaska by BP's contractor Doyon Drilling. Nicholas Hughes, the son of Hughes and Plath, died by suicide in his home in Alaska on 16 March 2009 after suffering from depression. California is the 3rd largest state in the United States in area, after Alaska and Texas. Similarly the entire population of golden eagles from northern and central Alaska and northern Canada migrates south. Brook trout, coho, and sockeye salmon were significantly larger in beaver ponds than those in unimpounded stream sections in Colorado and Alaska. In recent times this has begun to change in Alaska, Russia, and some other parts of the world. During the Russian administration of Alaska, banknotes were printed on sealskin. Extensive glaciers are found in Antarctica, Chile, Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Iceland. Itineraries from San Francisco usually include round trip cruises to Alaska and Mexico. Records in the northeast Pacific are increasing, and breeding has been suspected in British Columbia and Alaska. Although once near extinction, they have begun to spread again, from remnant populations in California and Alaska. In the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, salmon are keystone species, supporting wildlife such as birds, bears and otters. A variant method of fish stocking, called ocean ranching, is under development in Alaska. Show More Sentences Excluding Alaska and Hawaii the terrain spans 3,000 miles West to East and more than a thousand North to South. In Alaska, wild game like ptarmigan and moose meat feature extensively since much of the state is wilderness. In the United States Pacific coast, they have been found from southern California north to the southernmost tip of Alaska. In the Pacific, its range reaches as far north as the southern coast of Alaska and as far south as Chile in the east. Transient pods have been sighted from southern Alaska to central California. On the west coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, seal and sea lion populations have also substantially declined. The Tlingit of southeastern Alaska regarded the killer whale as custodian of the sea and a benefactor of humans. They range as far north as the Gulf of Alaska and southern Greenland and as far south as Tierra del Fuego. Spain also sent expeditions to the Pacific Northwest reaching Vancouver Island in southern Canada, and Alaska. It sailed vast areas of the Pacific, from Cape Horn to Alaska, Guam and the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, and the South Pacific. A climatological low in the Gulf of Alaska keeps the southern coast wet and mild during the winter months. Because of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, the plans raised some concerns of the test triggering earthquakes and causing a tsunami. They are still an important food source for the people of Nunavut and are also hunted and eaten in Alaska. The Inside Passage provides a similar route from Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, to Skagway, Alaska. In places such as Scotland, Newfoundland, and Alaska the fishing industry is a major employer, so governments are predisposed to support it. Most commercial fisheries do not target Alaska plaice, but many are caught as bycatch by commercial trawlers trying to catch other bottom fish. The estimated population size for the Alaska stock of ringed seals is 249,000 animals. In the spring and fall, walruses congregate throughout the Bering Strait, reaching from the western coast of Alaska to the Gulf of Anadyr. In Alaska, foxes were introduced to many islands to create new populations for the fur trade. In 1791 Alessandro Malaspina sailed to Yakutat Bay, Alaska, which was rumoured to be a Passage. Show More Sentences In 1826 Frederick William Beechey explored the north coast of Alaska, discovering Point Barrow. Shortly after her return in late 1957, she was reassigned to her new home port of Kodiak, Alaska. The embargo encouraged new venues for energy exploration including Alaska, the North Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus. The westerlies explain why coastal North America tends to be wet, especially from Northern California to Alaska, during the winter. Almost every year, GLOFs occur in two locations in southeastern Alaska, one of which is Abyss Lake. The species entered Alaska 100,000 years ago, though they did not move south until 13,000 years ago. Eastern Russian forests hold arguably the largest number of brown bears in the world outside of possibly Alaska and northwestern Canada. The largest amount of legalized brown bear hunting occurs in Canada, Finland, Russia, Slovakia and Alaska. In other areas, such as Alaska, dumps may continue to be an attractant for brown bears. According to the Alaska Science Center, a 12 gauge shotgun with slugs has been the most effective weapon. Although canine distemper is lethal in dogs, it has not been recorded to kill wolves, except in Canada and Alaska. Habitation sites are known in Alaska and the Yukon from at least 20,000 years ago, with suggested ages of up to 40,000 years. The first surface crossing of the ocean was led by Wally Herbert in 1969, in a dog sled expedition from Alaska to Svalbard, with air support. Indigenous peoples of the United States are commonly known as Native Americans or American Indians, and Alaska Natives. Alaska was a glacial refugium because it had low snowfall, allowing a small population to exist. The flight started from Svalbard in Norway, and crossed the Arctic Ocean to Alaska. Aerial view of the Chukchi Sea between Chukotka and Alaska, displaying a pattern of leads. Opossums and porcupines were among most successful northward migrants, reaching as far as Canada and Alaska, respectively. Older blades with this attribute have yet to be discovered from sites in either Asia or Alaska. Currently Alaska is governed as a State within United States with very limited autonomy for Alaska Native peoples. Show More Sentences Of the Canadian and United States Arctic communities, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with about 4,000 inhabitants. In North America, it was found in Canada, Alaska, and the northern conterminous USA from Washington to Maine. Large populations of wild reindeer are still found in Norway, Finland, Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada. Alaska has four herds in Alaska, the Western Arctic herd, Teshekpuk Lake herd, the Central Arctic herd and the Porcupine herd. In Alaska and Finland, reindeer sausage is sold in supermarkets and grocery stores. In Alaska, reindeer herders use satellite telemetry to track their herds, using online maps and databases to chart the herd's progress. The language is related to a number of languages spoken in northern Canada and Alaska. At the same time, Russians colonized Alaska and even founded settlements in California, such as Fort Ross. At the end of this trip, he walked into the city of Eagle, Alaska, and sent a telegram announcing his success. Common ostriches are so adaptable that they can be farmed in climates ranging from South Africa to Alaska. Florida is one of the largest states east of the Mississippi River, and only Alaska and Michigan are larger in water area. Also concerning is the lack of infrastructure on the Western Alaska coast to deal with a spill or a wrecked vessel. Michio Hoshino, a Japanese wildlife photographer, was once pursued briefly by a hungry male polar bear in northern Alaska. In the late 19th century, it was introduced into the Aleutian Islands southwest of Alaska. It mostly inhabits tundra and pack ice, but is also present in boreal forests in Canada and the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. The Prestige oil spill in 2002 spilt more oil than the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Only in 1732 Alaska was seen for the first time by the expedition of Ivan Fyodorov and Mikhail Gvozdev and it was documented. Suggestions have been made to construct a Bering Strait bridge between Alaska and Siberia. The Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula. Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea which separates the Alaska Peninsula from mainland Alaska. Show More Sentences The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska. On July 15, Chirikov sighted land, probably the west side of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The sea otter pelts they brought, soon judged to be the finest fur in the world, would spark Russian settlement in Alaska. The Harmon decision should also apply to the Alaska system for income reporting purposes. During 1989, I had the good fortune to bag a polar bear, Quebec caribou, Roosevelt elk, and Alaska brown bear. Our three branches have a positive impact on the health, and roundaboutly, on the economy in rural Alaska. Other early settlers probably crossed the Bering Strait from present-day Russia to Alaska. Just like the fairy tale figure Rumplestiltskin who spun flax into gold, Alaska must learn how to turn gas into cash. In addition to locavore cuisine, the Alaska Railroad is proud to serve local brews from Alaskan Brewing Company and Denali Brewing Company. The baskets made by Alaska Natives are commonly constructed of birchbark or cedar, beach grass, dried grass, spruce or willow root and baleen. Kendra was a fairly experienced hunter for her age, having shot some Alaska game as well as wild hogs and fair-chase axis and blackbuck in Texas. He got hooked on snow sculpting in 1997 in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was doing a law clerkship. Now all I needed was a good setup for the sea duck portion of our Alaska hunting extravaganza. Alaska has been meeting federal needs for the fifth year running, which are aimed at meliorating access to Medicaid for eligible families. The primary North American milliped family Parajulidae ranges from Yakutut, Alaska, and James Bay, Ontario, to western El Salvador. Two states, Alaska and Wyoming, saw a decrease in total tax revenue primarily because of a decline from 2012 in severance tax revenues. The Aleutian Canada goose nests entirely on islands of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Jeff King battled through blowing snow and poor visibility to earn his third victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. While Judge began missionizing the native peoples of Alaska, he made his main mark among the gold seekers in the Canadian Yukon. Liebersbach moved to Alaska in 1970 to be a rookie smokejumper for the Bureau of Land Management. Show More Sentences The Snakehead Bank south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, was surveyed repeatedly over 4 days and nights. Palin enjoys hunting, fishing, and riding snowmachines through the Alaska wilderness. In the second case, snowshoe hare declines in northern Canada and Alaska may force goshawks to migrate south. But with a penchant for snowshoe hares, lynx thrive in the expansive boreal forests of Alaska and central Canada where hares are most abundant. Often known as Mount McKinley outside of Alaska, it is the highest peak in North America. He traveled to Yakutat, then a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska, and worked in the cannery. Response of common murres to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and long-term changes in the Gulf of Alaska marine ecosystem. He decided to open a wild game preserve where Alaska tourists could see big animals, like bison and, later, musk ox and reindeer. McKinley Bank is one of just 10 mutual savings banks west of the Mississippi, Ingham says, and the only one of its kind in Alaska. Studies of people in Alaska and Greenland show that myopia is more common in younger generations than older. The author will tell how she quit her job at the BBC to ride 20,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina on a 225cc Yamaha trail bike. The Alaska Native Medical Center trauma center was re-verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons earlier this year. In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory. Alaska Native tribes had taken over all contractible functions from IHS because it was considered substandard. An experienced Swiftie, Heather Day, is moving from her position as Regional Manger in Alaska to the same role in the new Denver office. He dreams of riding the trans-siberian Railway and visiting Alaska. Cytotaxonomic notes on some monocotyledons of Alaska and northern British Columbia. The daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin hasn't attempted to enforce the court's order by wage garnishment or other means. Alaska Airlines partnered with Urban Airship to launch Apple Passbook in May. The planned eighty-six mile cable-route will originate in Skagway, landing in the community of Haines before terminating at Lena Point near Juneau, Alaska. Show More Sentences Alaska has also adopted a community property system, but it is optional. The glacier bear is found only in limited places in Southeast Alaska. Zawrotny is stationed at the USCG Air Station, Kodiak, Alaska. Now a slurry of surimi, produced from Alaska Pollock, has a gelling film-forming ability that can be used to lower the amount of fat in deep-fried products. For the miner, geologist and prospector, the mineral terranes of the Russian Far East are similar to and an extension of those found in Alaska, the Yukon and British Columbia. From the Alaska Range to Washington and Oregon, it is often found in high mountains above the tree line or on bluffs and cliffs along river valleys below the tree line. The geology of Alaska is typical of that of the cordillera, while the major islands of Hawaii consist of Neogene volcanics erupted over a hot spot. California contains more forestland than any other state except Alaska. Peter sighted a towering peak on the Alaska mainland, Mount Saint Elias. Commercial fish species include 6 species of Pacific salmon, Alaska pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific halibut, yellowfin sole, Pacific ocean perch and sablefish. The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly. Regions in the world with similar climates include the Aleutian Islands, the Alaska Peninsula, and Tierra del Fuego, although these regions are closer to the equator. Therefore, the Russian emperor, Alexander II, decided to sell Alaska. Cory and her team studied 27 melting permafrost sites in Alaska and identified seven thermokarst failures, large patches of the Arctic tundra that have melted. He certainly did not sail across to Alaska, prove that there was no land bridge to the north or south, or compare his knowledge to that of learned geographers. The bears could disappear from Europe, Asia, and Alaska, and be depleted from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and areas off the northern Greenland coast. While some online stores do offer free shipping on orders to Puerto Rico, many merchants exclude Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and other United States territories. The flight started from Svalbard and crossed the icecap to Alaska. The Gwich'in, the indigenous people of northwestern Canada and northeastern Alaska, have been dependent on the international migratory Porcupine Caribou Herd for millenia. Scandinavia lies at the same latitude as Alaska or Greenland, but the effect of the warm North Atlantic Current is even more pronounced here than it is in Britain and Ireland. Show More Sentences European Colonization of Alaska started in the 18th century by Russia. One theory suggests people in boats followed the coastline from the Kurile Islands to Alaska down the coasts of North and South America as far as Chile. It includes the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi and Kamchatka Peninsulas in Russia as well as Alaska in the United States. While Alaska attracted little interest at the time, the population of nearby British Columbia started to increase rapidly a few years after hostilities ended. Commercially licensed spaceports already exist at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast, in Florida adjoining Kennedy Space Center, in Virginia and in Alaska. Canada occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing land borders with the contiguous United States to the south, and the US state of Alaska to the northwest. The climate is arid in the Great Basin, desert in the Southwest, Mediterranean in coastal California, and oceanic in coastal Oregon and Washington and southern Alaska. In 1867, the same year as Canadian Confederation, Britain declined to purchase for Canada the Alaska territory that was to that point tenuously held by Russia. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The upgraded Alaska Airlines iOS app available today will use Urban Airship's PassTools solution to create and dynamically update Apple Passbook boarding passes. A few small plantations consisting of plants collected from similar climates such as Tierra del Fuego in South America and Alaska thrive on the islands. In Alaska, indigenous peoples belong to 11 cultures with 11 languages. Census Bureau's definition of the 13 westernmost states includes the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin to the West Coast, and the outlying states of Hawaii and Alaska. In January 2008, in Anchorage, Alaska, friends and relatives gathered to bid their last farewell to 89 year old Marie Smith Jones, a beloved matriarch of her community. Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced on Friday that drilling operations had resumed in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska on Thursday afternoon. After breeding on sea ice in the Bering Sea in spring, many males migrate to terrestrial haul-outs in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and on the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia. In North America, it is planted as a street and shade tree as far north as Anchorage, Alaska, having been first introduced from Europe in the 18th century. Wolf packs in Astrakhan hunt Caspian seals on the Caspian Sea coastline and some wolf packs in Alaska and Western Canada have been observed to feed on salmon. Because of its distinctive culture within the United States, only Alaska is Louisiana's rival in popularity as a setting for reality television programs. Alaska Congressman Don Young... spent a huge share of his campaign donations on legal fees to keep his nose clean in the face of an FBI investigation into his dealings. Show More Sentences A regular mail run in Wales, Alaska, used a sleigh drawn by reindeer. Current whaling nations are Norway, Iceland, and Japan, despite their joining to the IWC, as well as the aboriginal communities of Siberia, Alaska, and northern Canada. Reduced coastal sea ice has also been implicated in the increase of stampeding deaths crowding the shorelines of the Chukchi Sea between eastern Russia and western Alaska. They winter over in the Bering Sea along the eastern coast of Siberia south to the northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, and along the southern coast of Alaska. Belfast contestant Iain Watters went into meltdown last year when his Baked Alaska was taken briefly out of the fridge by fellow contestant Diana Beard. But Alaska pollack has only one-third the value of the Atlantic cod, a traditionally average-priced eating fish, and the other four have only a tenth the value of cod. Deg Hit'an are a group of Northern Athabascan peoples in Alaska. They think in terms of Eskimo without realizing the diversity of Yup'ik and Inupiaq cultures or that there's a very large and diverse Athabascan culture in Interior Alaska. In late December 2004, deaths of common redpoll finches were reported around the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, coincident with a prolonged period of extreme cold. Hooded seals are known to be a highly migratory species that often wander long distances, as far west as Alaska and as far south as the Canary Islands and Guadeloupe. Dangerous encounters in 1982 after the eruption of Galunggung in Indonesia, and 1989 after the eruption of Mount Redoubt in Alaska raised awareness of this phenomenon. The seventh-grade science teacher joined Ann Harding, a biologist at Alaska Pacific University, to study the feeding habits of a bird known as the little auk. Crafts at the Holiday Party include fish prints, raku bowls, holiday cards, holiday ornaments, gingerbread houses, and bentwood boxes demonstrated by an Alaska Native artist. In addition, a growing number of jurisdictions, including New Jersey, Delaware, Alaska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Idaho have abolished the rule against perpetuities. They have been documented opportunistically feeding near fish hatcheries in Southeast Alaska, feasting on salmon fry released from the hatcheries. In Juneau, Murkowski appointed a subcabinet group composed of representatives of various state agencies, including the Alaska Fish and Game and Commerce departments. The summer solstice is a really big deal in Alaska, which had many Midnight Sun Fun Runs, Midnight Sun Dances, riverboat races and other festivals this weekend. Alaska Bank also offered bilingual services through a network of employees throughout the bank who spoke Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Yupik. Also, the number of nonresident employees seemed to be on the rise, leaving some in the Senate wondering if Alaska could do more to encourage local hire. 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