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  2. Freshwater seal - Wikipedia

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    The Saimaa ringed seal is closely related to the Ladoga ringed seal, the populations likely became isolated from the Baltic ringed seal around the same time. The Saimaa ringed seal lives solely within Saimaa, a large freshwater lake in the regions of South Savo, South Karelia, and North Karelia in Finland. Current estimates place the size of ...

  3. 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the Fairweather Fault in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is a T-shaped bay with a width of 2 miles (3 km) and a length of 7 miles (11 km). Lituya Bay is an ice-scoured tidal inlet with a maximum depth of 722 feet (220 m). The narrow entrance of the bay has a depth of only 33 feet (10 m).

  4. Scammon Bay, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Area code. 907. FIPS code. 02-67680. GNIS feature ID. 1409133. Scammon Bay ( Central Yupik: Marayaarmiut) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 474, up from 465 in 2000.

  5. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications .

  6. Anchorage, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .muni .org. Anchorage ( Tanaina: Dgheyay Kaq'; Dgheyaytnu ), officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 census, [5] [9] it contains nearly 40 percent of the state's population, and has more people than all of Northern Canada and Greenland ...

  7. Seal Bay (South Australia) - Wikipedia

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    Seal Bay (South Australia) /  35.99575903°S 137.31905882°E  / -35.99575903; 137.31905882. Seal Bay is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of Kangaroo Island about 164 kilometres (102 miles) southwest of the state capital of Adelaide and about 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of the municipal seat of ...

  8. Lituya Bay - Wikipedia

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    Lituya Bay (/ l ɪ ˈ tj uː j ə /; Tlingit: Ltu.aa, meaning 'lake within the point') is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 14.5 km (9 mi) long and 3.2 km (2 mi) wide at its widest point. The bay was noted in 1786 by Jean-François de Lapérouse, who named it Port des Français. Twenty-one of ...

  9. Amook Bay Seaplane Base - Wikipedia

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    Facilities and aircraft. Amook Bay Seaplane Base has one seaplane landing area designated N/S with a water surface measuring 8,000 by 700 feet (2,438 x 213 m). For the 12-month period ending June 12, 1978, the airport had 170 aircraft operations, an average of 14 per month: 71% general aviation and 29% air taxi. [1]