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Seward Peninsula| Extension of northwestern Alaska bordered to the north by Kotzebue Sound and the Chukchi Sea, to the west by the Bering Strait, and to the south by Norton Sound; length about 320 km/ 200 mi; width about 235 km/145 mi. The tundra-covered peninsula supports a small population engaged mainly in mining and trapping. |
| Rapid but temporary development followed the discovery of gold in 1898 in the area around Nome, on the south coast. Cape Prince of Wales, on the western tip, is the westernmost point on the North American continent. The yearly Iditarod dogsleigh race from Anchorage to Nome crosses the peninsula. |
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| But those estimates had not incorporated the bubbles Walter was probing on an autumn morning on the Seward Peninsula. For more than 100 years, the Nome alluvial deposits have produced nearly 5 million ounces of gold from shallow, flat-lying sand and gravel deposits, with an additional 5 million ounces of alluvial production from other areas on the Seward Peninsula. Wales, Alaska Located at the western tip of the Seward Peninsula on Cape Prince of Wales, this American village is just 50 miles from Russia,across the Bering Strait Founded a century ago as a major whaling centre, a flu outbreak in 1918 decimated the outpost and today it is home to 160 people It still has a strong Kinugmiut Eskimo whaling culture, with residents travelling to nearby villages in large traditional skin boats. |
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