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The Alaska Peninsula [1] (also called Aleut Peninsula [2] or Aleutian Peninsula, [3] Aleut: Alasxix̂; Sugpiaq: Aluuwiq, Al'uwiq) is a peninsula extending about 497 mi (800 km) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. The peninsula separates the Pacific Ocean from Bristol Bay, an arm of the Bering Sea.
The name "Alaska" (Russian: Аля́ска, romanized: Aljáska) was introduced during the Russian colonial period when it was used to refer to the Alaska Peninsula.It was derived from an Aleut-language idiom, alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed".
Iñupiaq or Inupiaq (/ ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ k / ih-NOO-pee-ak, Inupiaq:), also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat (/ ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ t / ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, [3] Sugcestun, [4] Suk, [4] Supik, [3] [4] Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, [4] Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language spoken in the western and southwestern Alaska, but is considered a distinct language.
Aleut (/ ˈ æ l i uː t / AL-ee-oot) or Unangam Tunuu [3] is the language spoken by the Aleut living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula (in Aleut Alaxsxa, the origin of the state name Alaska). [4] Aleut is the sole language in the Aleut branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family. The Aleut ...
Aleutic language or Aleutic, the language of the Aleuts; Aleutic Islands (Aleutics), aka Aleutian Islands, an archipelago linking Alaska to Kamchatka, the southern bound of the Bering Sea; Alaska Peninsula aka Aleutic Peninsula, a peninsula that links mainland Alaska to the Aleutian Islands
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Bits and Pieces of Alaskan History: Published over the years in From Ketchikan to Barrow, a department in the Alaska Sportsman and Alaska magazine – v.1. 1935-1959 / v.2. 1960-1974. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0882401560. McBeath, Jerry et al. The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State (2008)