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Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

Index Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of, of which is wilderness. [1]

75 relations: Alaska, Alaska moose, Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Islands Wilderness, American marten, Attu Island, Beach, Bear, Bering Sea Wilderness, Besboro Island, Bogoslof Island, Bogoslof Wilderness, Canada lynx, Cape Lisburne, Alaska, Cape Thompson, Chamisso Island, Chamisso Wilderness, Chiswell Islands, Chukchi Sea, Cliff, Coyote, Dall sheep, Forrester Island (Alaska), Forrester Island Wilderness, Fox, Hagemeister Island, Hall Island (Alaska), Hazy Islands Wilderness, Headlands and bays, Homer, Alaska, Island, Islet, Kachemak Bay, King Island (Alaska), Lake, Landform, Muskrat, National Wildlife Refuge, North America, North American beaver, North American river otter, Northwestern wolf, Otter Island (Alaska), Pinniped, Porcupine caribou, Pribilof Islands, Puffin Island (Alaska), Rainforest, Reef, Rock (geology), ..., Saint Lazaria Wilderness, Saint Paul Island (Alaska), Sea lion, Sea otter, Seabird, Semidi Islands, Shumagin Islands, Sitkinak Island, Sledge Island, Southeast Alaska, Spire, St. George Island (Alaska), St. Matthew Island, Stream, Sutwik Island, Terrain, Thick-billed murre, Tundra, Unimak Island, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Volcano, Walrus, Walrus Island (Pribilof Islands), Whale, Wilderness. Expand index (25 more) »

Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska moose

The Alaska moose (Alces alces gigas) or giant moose or Alaskan moose is a subspecies of moose that ranges from Alaska to western Yukon.

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Tanam Unangaa, literally "Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the U.S. state of Alaska and the Russian federal subject of Kamchatka Krai.

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Aleutian Islands Wilderness

The Aleutian Islands Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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American marten

The American marten or American pine marten (Martes americana) is a North American member of the family Mustelidae, sometimes referred to as the pine marten.

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Attu Island

Attu (Atan) is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, North America, and the Americas.

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Bear

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.

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Bering Sea Wilderness

Bering Sea Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Besboro Island

Besboro Island is a small island in the Norton Sound, Bering Sea, off the shores of Alaska.

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Bogoslof Island

Bogoslof Island or Agasagook Island (Aĝasaaĝux̂) is the summit of a submarine stratovolcano located at the southern edge of the Bering Sea, northwest of Unalaska Island of the Aleutian Island chain.

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Bogoslof Wilderness

Bogoslof Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Canada lynx

The Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) or Canadian lynx is a North American mammal of the cat family, Felidae.

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Cape Lisburne, Alaska

Cape Lisburne is a cape located at the northwest point of the Lisburne Peninsula on the Chukchi Sea coast in Alaska.

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Cape Thompson

Cape Thompson is a headland on the Chukchi Sea coast of Alaska.

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Chamisso Island

Chamisso Island is a small island in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska.

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Chamisso Wilderness

Chamisso Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Chiswell Islands

The Chiswell Islands are a group of rocky, uninhabited islands, accessible only by boat or airplane, within the Kenai Peninsula Borough of Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska.

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Chukchi Sea

Chukchi Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

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Cliff

In geography and geology, a cliff is a vertical, or nearly vertical, rock exposure.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans); from Nahuatl) is a canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia, though it is larger and more predatory, and is sometimes called the American jackal by zoologists. The coyote is listed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to its wide distribution and abundance throughout North America, southwards through Mexico, and into Central America. The species is versatile, able to adapt to and expand into environments modified by humans. It is enlarging its range, with coyotes moving into urban areas in the Eastern U.S., and was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013., 19 coyote subspecies are recognized. The average male weighs and the average female. Their fur color is predominantly light gray and red or fulvous interspersed with black and white, though it varies somewhat with geography. It is highly flexible in social organization, living either in a family unit or in loosely knit packs of unrelated individuals. It has a varied diet consisting primarily of animal meat, including deer, rabbits, hares, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, though it may also eat fruits and vegetables on occasion. Its characteristic vocalization is a howl made by solitary individuals. Humans are the coyote's greatest threat, followed by cougars and gray wolves. In spite of this, coyotes sometimes mate with gray, eastern, or red wolves, producing "coywolf" hybrids. In the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, the eastern coyote (a larger subspecies, though still smaller than wolves) is the result of various historical and recent matings with various types of wolves. Genetic studies show that most North American wolves contain some level of coyote DNA. The coyote is a prominent character in Native American folklore, mainly in the Southwestern United States and Mexico, usually depicted as a trickster that alternately assumes the form of an actual coyote or a man. As with other trickster figures, the coyote uses deception and humor to rebel against social conventions. The animal was especially respected in Mesoamerican cosmology as a symbol of military might. After the European colonization of the Americas, it was reviled in Anglo-American culture as a cowardly and untrustworthy animal. Unlike wolves (gray, eastern, or red), which have undergone an improvement of their public image, attitudes towards the coyote remain largely negative.

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Dall sheep

The thin horn sheep (Ovis dalli) is a species of sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in colour and having curved, yellowish-brown horns.

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Forrester Island (Alaska)

Forrester Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Forrester Island Wilderness

Forrester Island Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska at Forrester Island.

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Fox

Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.

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Hagemeister Island

Hagemeister Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the north shore of Bristol Bay at the entrance to Togiak Bay.

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Hall Island (Alaska)

Hall Island is a small island located to the northwest of St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea in Alaska, United States.

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Hazy Islands Wilderness

Hazy Islands Wilderness, at 32 acres (16 ha), is Alaska's smallest wilderness area.

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Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related coastal features.

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Homer, Alaska

Homer is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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Islet

An islet is a very small island.

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Kachemak Bay

Kachemak Bay is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula.

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King Island (Alaska)

King Island (Ugiuvak) (King's Island in early US sources) is an island in the Bering Sea, west of Alaska.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Landform

A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.

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Muskrat

The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and is an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.

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National Wildlife Refuge

National Wildlife Refuge System is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species.

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North American river otter

The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts.

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Northwestern wolf

The northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf, Alaskan timber wolf, Canadian timber wolf, or northern timber wolf, is a subspecies of gray wolf in western North America.

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Otter Island (Alaska)

Otter Island is a small island located southwest of Saint Paul Island, Alaska, in the Bering Sea.

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.

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Porcupine caribou

The Porcupine caribou or Grant's caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) found in Alaska, United States, and adjacent parts of Canada.

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Pribilof Islands

The Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham.

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Puffin Island (Alaska)

Puffin Island is a rocky islet in the Kotzebue Sound, Alaska.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Reef

A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.

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Rock (geology)

Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.

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Saint Lazaria Wilderness

The Saint Lazaria Wilderness (formerly the Saint Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge) or St.

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Saint Paul Island (Alaska)

Saint Paul Island is the largest of the Pribilof Islands, a group of four Alaskan volcanic islands located in the Bering Sea between the United States and Russia.

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Sea lion

Sea lions are sea mammals characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short, thick hair, and a big chest and belly.

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Sea otter

The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.

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Seabird

Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.

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Semidi Islands

The Semidi Islands are a group of islands of the state of Alaska, United States, lying offshore in the Gulf of Alaska.

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Shumagin Islands

The Shumagin Islands (Unangan: Qagiiĝun) are a group of 20 islands in the Aleutians East Borough south of the mainland of Alaska, United States, at 54°54'–55°20' North 159°15'–160°45' West.

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Sitkinak Island

Sitkinak Island is an island of the Kodiak Archipelago of the state of Alaska, United States.

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Sledge Island

Sledge Island, or Ayak Island, is a small island in the Bering Sea.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.

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St. George Island (Alaska)

St.

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St. Matthew Island

St.

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Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

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Sutwik Island

Sutwik Island is a 14-mile-long (22.5 km) island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located at off the Alaska Peninsula, east of Chignik Bay.

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Terrain

Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface.

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Thick-billed murre

The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae).

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Unimak Island

Unimak Island (Unimax) is the largest island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Walrus

The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Walrus Island (Pribilof Islands)

Walrus Island is a small islet located 15 km east of Saint Paul Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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Wilderness

Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Maritime_National_Wildlife_Refuge

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