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Alaska Peninsula

noun

A peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands).

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"Alaska peninsula" Quotes from Famous Books

... Isle of Hermes; and, after having made search for several islands marked upon Arrowsmith's charts, had at length reached Kamtchatka. At the end of April, she had set sail for Ounalashka and taken observations of the north coast of the Alaska peninsula. In September the Moller rejoined the Seniavine, and, from that period until their return to Russia, they were no more separated, save for ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... an island—the ships continued their exploration to the north-west, skirting the coast as near as stormy weather permitted them, and calling at various places until the north-west extremity of the Alaska Peninsula was reached. In one place, afterwards called Cook's River, it was hoped that the desired passage eastward was found; but it was soon discovered that it was merely ...

— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook