[
US
/ˈsɪtkə/
]
NOUN
- a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906
How To Use Sitka In A Sentence
- In fact, the average winter low in Sitka is 30 degrees, much warmer than many continental towns on our list. 12 Terrific Small Towns You’ve Never Heard Of | Impact Lab
- Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces. The Guardian World News
- Sitka is not a happy place for anyone, as they dream of Zion and their return to their true home. “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon (Harpercollins, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
- The Tongass supports brown bear, wolverine, northern goshawk, marbled murrelet, marten, Sitka black-tailed deer, the Alexander Archipelago wolf, and healthy runs of five salmon species.
- For this reason it is my opinion that manufacturers will tolerate more color variation in Sitka spruce than in the whiter spruces such as European or Engelmann.
- When I lived and worked in Sitka, Seward, Homer and Anchorage, I never met anyone in the Party who trusted Palin, or even liked her. Waldo Jaquith - Obama ahead in polls.
- Set in Sitka, Alaska this novel is in the style of some of the alternate histories written by Harry Turtledove and S.M. Sterling. Reviews
- In ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Sitka spruce, dimpling sometimes occurs as numerous small, conical indentations of the plane of the growth ring.
- At the beginning of September, the migrants begin passing through, bound for their northern homes - big yachts back to Oregon or Puget Sound, squid boats and draggers up to Sitka.
- The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce.