Alexander Archipelago

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Alexander Archipelago

A group of more than 1,000 offshore islands in the Panhandle of southeast Alaska. The rugged, heavily forested islands are part of the Coast Mountains.

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Alexander Archipelago

(ˌælɪɡˈzɑːndə)

(Placename) a group of over 1000 islands along the coast of SE Alaska

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Alexan′der Archipel′ago

an archipelago off the SE coast of Alaska.

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Alexander Archipelago - a group of islands off southeastern Alaska

AK, Alaska, Last Frontier - a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union; "Alaska is the largest state in the United States"

Admiralty Island - an Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau

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One record was from the mainland along a transboundary river (Taku River), and 3 were from islands of the Alexander Archipelago (Wrangell, Mitkof, and Revillagigedo).

Acoustic monitoring provides first records of Hoary Bats (Lasiurus cinereus) and delineates the distribution of silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) in Southeast Alaska

Their name for themselves is Lingit, meaning "People of the Tides" The Tlingit are a matrilineal society that developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago. An inland subgroup, known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory in Canada.

A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country

Alaska's fourth-biggest town, with about 9,000 people, lies on the outer edge of the Alexander Archipelago, the chain of islands that snakes down parallel to the Canadian coast.

Alaskan eyes: what can you learn about a place by visiting it over and over again? In Sitka, one long-lost local discovers ... everything

They also found that two of the brown bears that hailed from an isolated population in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago were more closely related to the polar bear than to the other brown bear, sharing between 5 and 10 percent of the polar bear's genes.

Polar Bear Gene Study Finds Earlier Origin, Tracks Traces Of Climate Change

The deer, in turn, are prey for the Alexander Archipelago wolf.

A (second-growth) cabin in the woods: Tongass pilot project explores value-added forest products

The snaps in Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago were taken by photographer Jon Cornforth.

Making a whale splash; INTREPID SNAPPER'S IH HUMP ACTION SHOTS

Part III will criticize the approach taken by the Special Master and thereafter by the Court in the Alaska case, and will suggest the correct methodology to be applied in cases with complex coastlines, such as the Alexander Archipelago. Part IV will briefly suggest that U.S.

When good courts go wrong: a critique of the Supreme Court's domestic maritime boundary jurisprudence

One of the submerged lands consists of pockets and enclaves underlying waters between the southeastern Alaska islands known as the Alexander Archipelago.

U.S. Supreme Court rejects State of Alaska's claim of title to certain submerged lands underlying waters located in southeastern Alaska finding insufficient evidence to support historic inland waters status

They settled in the Alexander Archipelago, a small chain of windswept islands along the coast of the Alaska Panhandle (see map, p.

The Tlingit Indians of Alaska: respect for nature and ancestors marked the Tlingit culture

The Tongass supports brown bear, wolverine, northern goshawk, marbled murrelet, marten, Sitka black-tailed deer, the Alexander Archipelago wolf, and healthy runs of five salmon species.

Remains of the Rainforest

A cluster of about 1,100 islands, the tops of a submerged mountain range, is known as the Alexander Archipelago. This region includes the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the United States.