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- proper noun An arm of the
Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast ofAlaska , stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
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Examples
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Simply put: in both the Gulf of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, the voluminous contingency plans that had been approved on paper didn't work in practice.
Riki Ott: Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? Riki Ott 2011
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Drilling began in 1958 along the narrow bay that stretches 180 miles from Anchorage to the Gulf of Alaska, dotting fjords and forests with pipelines and oil derricks and helping boost the population of the nearby Kenai peninsula to its current 50,000 from about 6,000.
New Energy Estimate Breathes Life Into a Declining Alaskan Oil Field Ryan Dezember 2011
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The Copper River flows cold and fast out of the heart of Alaska, 300 miles through rocky canyons and past calving glaciers until it branches into a broad delta of wetlands and into the Gulf of Alaska.
Ice cold in Alaska 2012
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The weather service says low pressure developing over the Gulf of Alaska and eastern Pacific will bring rain starting Wednesday, perhaps as early as Tuesday evening.
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Simply put: in both the Gulf of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, the voluminous contingency plans that had been approved on paper didn't work in practice.
Riki Ott: Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? Riki Ott 2011
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Only one percent of the dead sea birds made landfall in the Gulf of Alaska, for example.
From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence 2010
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Shippers and the oil companies had argued vehemently against stationing extra large ocean-going tugs at Hinchinbrook to handle the extreme weather conditions at the entrance and in the Gulf of Alaska.
Riki Ott: Singing Praises of Unsung Heroes: The Big One That Didn't Happen 2010
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We had to learn to organize fleets of boats, planes and teach people how to catch the birds way out in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.
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Everyone in there was worried about oil coming ashore, which didn't happen for weeks and still hasn't happened in the disastrous way Alaskans witnessed in Prince William Sound and along the Gulf of Alaska.
Craig Medred: Gulf Oil Spill: The Best and the Worst of America 2010
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Just a little over 21 years after the famous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, off the Gulf of Alaska, the nation continues to deal with its worst-ever oil spill in another gulf -- this time the Gulf of Mexico.
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