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The Seward Peninsula is the westernmost limit of distribution for the black spruce, Picea mariana, a dominant overstory species of the region. Alaska's reindeer herding was concentrated on the Seward Peninsula ever since the first shipment of reindeer were imported there from eastern Siberia in 1892. [ 6 ]
Seward (Alutiiq: Qutalleq; Dena'ina: Tl'ubugh) is an incorporated home rule city in Alaska, United States.Located on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula, Seward is situated on Alaska's southern coast, approximately 120 miles (190 km) by road from Alaska's largest city, Anchorage.
Espenberg is a volcanic field in Alaska that contains the largest maars on Earth.It was active during the Pleistocene until 17,500 years BP, when a large eruption formed the 8 by 6 kilometres (5.0 mi × 3.7 mi) wide Devil Mountain Maar and deposited tephra over 2,500 square kilometres (970 sq mi), burying vegetation and forming the largest maar on Earth.
The Wales site is located on the south shore of the Seward Peninsula of northwestern Alaska, very near Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point in North America.The area is archaeologically sensitive, with a significant number of sites clustered in an area between the native village of Wales and the former Tin City Air Force Station.
Mount Osborn is the highest point in the Kigluaik Mountains, and also on the Seward Peninsula.It is approximately 4714 feet high and is located on the north end of the range.
Seward, Lowell Point View of Resurrection Bay from Miller's Landing Resurrection Bay , also known as Blying Sound , and Harding Gateway in its outer reaches, is a fjord on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska , United States .
Devil Mountain Lakes is located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Kotzebue on the northern part of the Seward Peninsula. [3] The coordinates are . The crater lake has a diameter of about 8 kilometers (5.0 mi); it is part of the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.
Ear Mountain (Inupiaq: Iŋiġagik) is an isolated mountain located on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The mountain, with an elevation of 2,329 feet (710 m) (GeoNames gives it elevation as 690 metres (2,260 ft) [1]), has a belt of Cretaceous tin "granites." Though the mountain is located in an area long known for its tin ...