English > Alaska: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union. |
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| Synonyms | Last Frontier, AK |
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| Instance of | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Part of | United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean |
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| Parts | Alaska Peninsula | A peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands) |
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| Alaska Range | A mountain range in south central Alaska |
| Alaskan pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline | An oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez |
| Aleutian Islands, Aleutians | An archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
| Alexander Archipelago | A group of islands off southeastern Alaska |
| Anchorage | A city in south central Alaska |
| Denali Fault | A major open geological fault in Alaska |
| Denali National Park | A large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault |
| Gates of the Arctic National Park | A large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier |
| Hubbard, Mount Hubbard | A mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high) |
| Iditarod Trail | A trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome |
| Inland Passage, Inside Passage | A naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska |
| Juneau, capital of Alaska | The state capital of Alaska |
| Katmai National Park | A national park in Alaska featuring mountains |
| Kenai Fjords National Park | A national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines |
| Kobuk Valley National Park | A national park in Alaska having mountains and forests / forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites |
| Kodiak, Kodiak Island | An island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska |
| Lake Clark National Park | A national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites |
| McKinley, Mount McKinley, Mt. McKinley, Denali | A mountain in south central Alaska |
| Mendenhall Glacier, Great Mendenhall Glacier | A glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska |
| Nome | A town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula |
| Prudhoe Bay | A bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 |
| Seward Peninsula | A peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle |
| Sitka | A town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906 |
| Skagway | A town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage |
| St. Elias Range, St. Elias Mountains | A range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory |
| Valdez | A port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world |
| Wrangell-St. Elias National Park | The largest national park of the United States |
| Spanish | AK, Alaska |
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| Catalan | Alaska |
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| Adjectives | Alaskan | relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska |
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