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Seward Peninsula, W Alaska, projecting c.200 mi (320 km) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The region is mostly bleak tundra, with long, cold winters. Placer-gold mining and trapping are the chief occupations of its sparse population. Nome is on the southern coast. Cape Prince of Wales is located at the western tip of the peninsula.
Seward PeninsulaPeninsula, western Alaska, U.S. Its tip, Cape Prince of Wales, on the Bering Strait, is the most westerly point of North America. The peninsula is about 180 mi (290 km) long and 130 mi (209 km) wide; its highest peak is 4,720 ft (1,439 m), in the Kigluaik Mountains. The city of Nome is on its southern coast. Seward Peninsula a peninsula of W Alaska, on the Bering Strait. Length: about 290 km (180 miles) Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | But those estimates had not incorporated the bubbles Walter was probing on an autumn morning on the Seward Peninsula. For more than 100 years, the Nome alluvial deposits have produced nearly 5 million ounces of gold from shallow, flat-lying sand and gravel deposits, with an additional 5 million ounces of alluvial production from other areas on the Seward Peninsula. Wales, Alaska Located at the western tip of the Seward Peninsula on Cape Prince of Wales, this American village is just 50 miles from Russia,across the Bering Strait Founded a century ago as a major whaling centre, a flu outbreak in 1918 decimated the outpost and today it is home to 160 people It still has a strong Kinugmiut Eskimo whaling culture, with residents travelling to nearby villages in large traditional skin boats. |
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