NOUN
- a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
How To Use Gulf of Alaska In A Sentence
- This trophic reorganization is hypothesized to be an important contributor to declines in populations of seabirds and marine mammals, because lipidpoor gadids and flatfishes generally replaced lipid-rich fish species in the Gulf of Alaska food web.
- From my porthole window, I gazed in awe at the stunning contrast of the shining snowcapped Chugach Mountains against the blueness of the Gulf of Alaska.
- In the fall, some birds cut across the Gulf of Alaska to shorten their trip south.
- Winds just as strong rage from the Gulf of Alaska, infamous for terrible storms that drop several hundred inches of rain and snow annually.
- An inlet of the Gulf of Alaska in southern Alaska west of the Kenai Peninsula. It is a major fishing ground for salmon and herring and has the largest tidal bore in the United States.
- Aragonite saturation in the Gulf of Alaska, of which Resurrection Bay is a part, has traditionally extended down to 250 meters, Mathis says.
- They'll be in the Gulf of Alaska, near Greenland, in the Argentine basin in the south Atlantic, and southwest of Chile in the Pacific.
- The suit reported that the sea lion and harbor seal populations declined by 85% during the time that the pollock, mackerel and cod catches in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska doubled.
- Since then, the number of ships sailing a Gulf of Alaska itinerary has grown to at least a dozen in 2004.
- Glaciers that naturally melt each summer along the Gulf of Alaska flushout huge amounts of organic material, made up mostly of dead microbes.