Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peninsula of western Alaska projecting into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle and forming the Bering Strait.
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- noun a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle
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Examples
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The Seward Peninsula is the only other part of the country that the book touches.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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I ate boiled seal, dark and hard, at a Yup'ik's kitchen on the Seward Peninsula.
Fare Play Around The World Quentin Hardy 2011
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Land cover change on the Seward Peninsula: the use of remote sensing to evaluate the potential influences of climate warming on historical vegetation dynamics.
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010
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Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska.
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Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska.
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For example, the introduction of reindeer to the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska during 1892 to 1902 was done to provide meat for Iñupiat communities, yet was also intended as a way of transforming Iñupiat from being subsistence marine mammal hunters to reindeer herders and thus to play an active role in the wider cash economy of the United States [19].
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Selawik/Kobuk/Noatak stable 400 no immediate threats Seward Peninsula stable350no immediate threats Yukon/Kuskokwim
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic 2009
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Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska.
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There are no foreseeable human-related threats to wolves, except on the Seward Peninsula where reindeer herders attempt to exclude them from reindeer grazing areas Black bear Black bears are abundant in the Kobuk Valley, Yukon Flats, and in most other forested areas, but the Alaskan Arctic is the periphery of black bear range, so they are absent or rare from most arctic areas.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic 2009
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In some local areas (e.g., the North Slope and Seward Peninsula) wolf numbers are below natural levels due to legal and illegal harvest.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic 2009
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