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Gulf of Alaska

Index Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska (Golfe d'Alaska) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found. [1]

42 relations: Alaska, Alaska Peninsula, Alexander Archipelago, American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Anchorage, Alaska, Arctic Circle, Bering Glacier, Bering Sea, British Columbia, Cape Spencer (Alaska), Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Cook Inlet, Coral, Cross Sound, Dixon Entrance, El Niño, Geographic Names Information System, Glacier Bay Basin, Glacier morphology, Inside Passage, International Hydrographic Organization, Juneau, Alaska, Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island, Lituya Bay, Malaspina Glacier, Montague Island (Alaska), Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Primary production, Primnoa pacifica, Prince William Sound, SeaWiFS, Southern California, Southwestern United States, Storm, Susitna River, Tsunami, United States Geological Survey, Washington (state), Yakutat Bay.

Alaska

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

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Alaska Peninsula

The Alaska Peninsula is a peninsula extending about to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands.

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Alexander Archipelago

The Alexander Archipelago is a long archipelago, or group of islands, of North America off the southeastern coast of Alaska.

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American Academy of Underwater Sciences

The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is a group of Scientific organizations and individual members who conduct scientific and educational activities underwater.

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Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) (Dena'ina Athabascan: Dgheyaytnu) is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth.

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Bering Glacier

Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (r) is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Cape Spencer (Alaska)

Cape Spencer is a headland on the Alaska shore, at the side of the entrance to Cross Sound west of Juneau, Alaska.

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Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia

The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia is a marine area designated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

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Cook Inlet

Cook Inlet (Dena'ina: Tikahtnu) stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Cross Sound

Cross Sound is a passage in the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska, located between Chichagof Island to its south and the mainland to its north.

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Dixon Entrance

The Dixon Entrance is a strait about long and wide in the Pacific Ocean at the Canada–United States border, between the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia in Canada.

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El Niño

El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Glacier Bay Basin

Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980, enlarged and designated as the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, covering an area of 3,283,000 acres (1,329,000 ha).

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Glacier morphology

Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors.

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Inside Passage

The Inside Passage is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific NW coast of North America.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the inter-governmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Juneau, Alaska

The City and Borough of Juneau (Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni), commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska.

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Kodiak Archipelago

The Kodiak Archipelago is an archipelago, or group of islands, south of the main land mass of the state of Alaska (United States), about by air south of Anchorage in the Gulf of Alaska.

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Kodiak Island

Kodiak Island (Alutiiq: Qikertaq, Кадьякъ) is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait.

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Lituya Bay

Lituya Bay (Tlingit: Ltu.aa,. Spelled L'tua in translation of Tebenkov's log. meaning 'lake within the point') is a fjord located on the coast of the Southeast part of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Malaspina Glacier

The Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is the largest piedmont glacier in the world.

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Montague Island (Alaska)

Montague Island lies in the Gulf of Alaska at the entrance to Prince William Sound, Alaska.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Primary production

Global oceanic and terrestrial photoautotroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary-production potential, and not an actual estimate of it. Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE. In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide.

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Primnoa pacifica

Primnoa pacifica or red tree coral is a species of soft coral in the family Primnoidae.

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Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound (Чугацкий залив Čugatski zaliv) is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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SeaWiFS

SeaWIFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) was a satellite-borne sensor designed to collect global ocean biological data.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States (Suroeste de Estados Unidos; also known as the American Southwest) is the informal name for a region of the western United States.

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Storm

A storm is any disturbed state of an environment or in an astronomical body's atmosphere especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather.

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Susitna River

The Susitna River (Sasut Na’ in Ahtna or Susitnu in Dena'ina) is a long river in the Southcentral Alaska.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Yakutat Bay

Yakutat Bay is a 29-km-wide (18 mi) bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska.

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References

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

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