Word: alaska
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...dispute focuses on a piece of Alaska that extends 500 miles south along the British Columbia coast. Canadians deny U.S. claims that the strip's boundaries encompass some 300 sq. mi. of rich fishing grounds near British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. In August, Joe Clark, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, rejected a request from Secretary of State George Shultz to negotiate the issue...
...National Guard returned to Iowa City last week, they were back from Honduras, not Fort Dodge. They had spent two weeks training in the bush and giving medical treatment to occupants of remote villages like Toro Muerto. The Air National Guard unit in Bangor, Me., has already been in Alaska, California and Italy this year and is revving up to fly off to Panama next week...
...first person to report that something was amiss was Guide Mike Branham, 40, a strapping six-footer who each spring flies a pontoon plane full of bear hunters into a cove on Russell Fjord, in Alaska's southeastern panhandle. This year he discovered that things had changed: Hubbard Glacier was on the move -- at a most unglacial pace of about 40 ft. per day. "We saw the glacier advance like it never had before," says Branham. That was in April. Within weeks, the leading edge of ice had sealed off the fjord at its opening, turning the 32-mile-long...
Alarmed, most of the 500 residents of the nearby fishing village of Yakutat gathered in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall for a briefing by scientists who have flocked to study what the U.S. Geological Survey has called a "world-class natural event." By last week, waters of the stream-fed fjord, renamed Russell Lake, had risen more than 62 ft., and were still climbing, covering the beaches and then the steep, alder-lined banks...
Many specialists believe each glacier has a distinct personality and rhythm. Says Will Harrison at the University of Alaska: "Glaciers are delicate and individual things, like humans. Instability is built into them." Harrison and other experts emphasize the influence of what they call the "plumbing" -- the movement, retention and loss of liquid water within and under the ice that acts as a lubricant...