Word: alaskan
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...archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked up off the coast of Iceland five years later. It had been driven along by the moving ice-floes...
Luigi Amedeo, "Prince of Saxony, and Duke of Abruzzi, naval officer, and navigator, bold explorer of Arctic seas, African tropics and Alaskan peaks, illustrating in this generation the adventurous, stout-hearted quality of his ancient family and the still more ancient Italian race...
...Harrison, has been United States ambassador to China, Mexico and Russia; and, at the invitation of both Japan and China, concluded the treaty which closed the recent war between these countries. He was United States consul before the arbitration board in London which settled in our favor the late Alaskan boundary dispute...
Nikifer Shouchuk, centre, an Alaskan, is 21 years old, and 5 feet 5 inches tall...
...frequent slides of rock and rubbish are unmistakable signs of the slow wearing process, which often trims sharp peaks into regular slopes. Glaciers which are characteristic of these lofty mountains, wear broad basins in valleys, forcing aside mountain spurs which they cannot go around. The Alaskan glaciers show how ice-fields may enter the sea, carrying down masses of debris and rounding off rock formations in the descent. Sometimes subdued, are depressed and buried in the sea, often to a great depth...