Alaska is the largest state of the United States of America by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.
Alaska, Last Frontier, AK (noun)
a state in northwestern North America
"Alaska is the largest state in the United States"
Hypernyms
- American State
one of the 50 states of the United States
- American State
Holonyms
- 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
- United States, United States Of America, America, The States, US, U S ., USA, U S A .
Meronyms
- Alaskan Pipeline, Trans-alaska-pipeline
an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez - Iditarod Trail
a trail that extends 1, 100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome - 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 - 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 and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites - Lake Clark National Park
a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites - Wrangell-st-elias-national-park
the largest national park of the United States - Aleutian Islands, Aleutians
an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska - Juneau, Capital Of Alaska
the state capital of Alaska - Anchorage
a city in south central Alaska - Nome
a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula - 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 - Valdez
a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world - Seward Peninsula
a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle - Alexander Archipelago
a group of islands off southeastern Alaska - Alaska Peninsula
a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands) - Alaska Range
a mountain range in south central Alaska - Denali Fault
a major open geological fault in Alaska - Hubbard, Mount Hubbard
a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14, 950 feet high) - Inland Passage, Inside Passage
a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska - Kodiak, Kodiak Island
an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska - 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 - Prudhoe Bay
a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 - St Elias Range, St Elias Mountains
a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory
- Alaskan Pipeline, Trans-alaska-pipeline
Derivationally Related Forms
- Alaskan
relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska
- Alaskan
Wikipedia Categories
- Alaska
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska
- Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
- Nome Census Area, Alaska
- Landforms of Alaska
- North Slope Borough, Alaska
- Aleutians East Borough, Alaska
- Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska
- Bethel Census Area, Alaska
- Denali Borough, Alaska
- Dillingham Census Area, Alaska
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
- Juneau City and Borough, Alaska
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
- Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
- Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
- Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska
- Sitka City and Borough, Alaska
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska
- Petersburg Census Area, Alaska
- Former census-designated places in Alaska
- Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
- Bethel, Alaska
- Fairbanks, Alaska
- Haines Borough, Alaska
- Homer, Alaska
- Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska
- Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska
- People from Homer, Alaska
- People from Anchorage, Alaska
- Economy of Anchorage, Alaska
- Buildings and structures in Anchorage, Alaska
- Transportation in Anchorage, Alaska
- Geography of Anchorage, Alaska
- Sports in Anchorage, Alaska
- Education in Anchorage, Alaska
- People from Juneau, Alaska
- Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska
- Military in Anchorage, Alaska
- Media in Anchorage, Alaska
- Sportspeople from Alaska
- Anchorage, Alaska
- , Alaska
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, usually called the Alyeska Pipeline in Alaska or the Alaska Pipeline elsewhere, is a majorU.S. oil pipeline connecting oil fields in Alaska's North Slope to a North Pacific seaport where the oil can be shipped to the Lower 48 states for refining.
Denali National Park and Preserve is located in Interior Alaska and contains Mount Mckinley, the tallest mountain in North America.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill's occurred in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989.
Mount Fairweather is a mountain located 20 km east of the Pacific Ocean in Glacier Bay National Park of the United States.
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