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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An inlet of the Bering Sea in western Alaska south of the Seward Peninsula.

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  • Veterinarians worried they bordered on being too thin, an observation that intensified the scrutiny the 26-year-old experienced in each successive checkpoint along the Yukon River to Kaltag, and from there, overland to Unalakleet and then along the coast of Norton Sound.

    AlaskaDispatch.com: Iditarod Dogs on the Edge AlaskaDispatch.com 2011

  • Veterinarians worried they bordered on being too thin, an observation that intensified the scrutiny the 26-year-old experienced in each successive checkpoint along the Yukon River to Kaltag, and from there, overland to Unalakleet and then along the coast of Norton Sound.

    AlaskaDispatch.com: Iditarod Dogs on the Edge AlaskaDispatch.com 2011

  • Fish species used by arctic communities include those that move seasonally from marine to freshwater environments, such as salmon and Arctic char, which are particularly important for indigenous peoples of Alaska (including Inuit communities around Kotzebue Sound, Norton Sound, and the Yukon and Kuskokwim Deltas).

    Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • Pink salmon populations do not maintain consistently high commercial abundance north of Norton Sound, in the Bering Sea basin of west-central Alaska.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Pink salmon populations do not maintain consistently high commercial abundance north of Norton Sound, in the Bering Sea basin of west-central Alaska.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Pink salmon populations do not maintain consistently high commercial abundance north of Norton Sound, in the Bering Sea basin of west-central Alaska.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Pink salmon populations do not maintain consistently high commercial abundance north of Norton Sound, in the Bering Sea basin of west-central Alaska.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • They named the Sound on the American side Norton Sound after the Speaker of the House of Commons.

    A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

  • Anchoring in Norton Sound, Cook sent away the boats to explore, and set to work to determine between the correctness of the chart drawn by Stocklin and his own observations, and after a series of no less than seventy-seven sets of observations he was able to show that Stocklin was wrong.

    The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907

  • Norton Sound was explored on the way back; and October saw Cook down at

    Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

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