Definition of Seward peninsula

1. Noun. A peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle.

Group relationships: Ak, Alaska, Last Frontier
Generic synonyms: Peninsula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seward Peninsula

Severn River
Severnaya Zemlya
Severnside
Severnsider
Severnsiders
Severo Ochoa
Sevilla
Sevillan
Sevillans
Seville
Seville orange
Sevillian
Sevillians
Seward
Seward's Folly
Seward Peninsula
Seychellean
Seychelles
Seychelles monetary unit
Seychelles rupee
Seychellois
Seyhan
Seyhan River
Seym

Literary usage of Seward peninsula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1907 by Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"Water supply of the Nome region, seward peninsula, 1906, by JC Hoyt and FFFF ... The gold placers of parts of seward peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, ..."

2. Handbook of Alaska: Its Resources, Products, and Attractions by Adolphus Washington Greely (1909)
"In this the people are right, for the gold production of seward peninsula, the general name given to the Nome region, aggregated to 1908 the enormous sum of ..."

3. EcoRegions of Alaska by Alisa L. Gallant (1998)
"Coastal plains, rolling hills, low mountains, and lava flats of the Seward Peninsula Ecoregion. A lack of trees is noticeable across all terrain types. ..."

4. Through the Yukon and Alaska by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1909)
"... by-word in Alaska, especially on the seward peninsula. Every judge appointed in Alaska has sooner or later been fiercely attacked; while this has been ..."

5. Alaska and the Klondike by John Scudder McLain (1905)
"VII NOME AND THE GOLD FIELDS OF THE seward peninsula TAKE a low, sandy beach, one without a tree within fifty miles; show a white line where the waves break ..."

6. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1922)
"The seward peninsula dredges are now working under the enormous handicap of the ... Another project to lower dredging costs on seward peninsula is to make ..."

7. Contributions to Economic Geology, 1903 by Samuel Franklin Emmons, Charles Willard Hayes (1904)
"The Kotzebue placer-gold field is in that part of the northeastern portion of the seward peninsula which lies to the south of the eastern extension of ..."

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