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    Cold Bay (Aleut: Udaamagax,; Sugpiaq: Pualu) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 108...
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    year. Cold Bay's main runway is the fifth-largest in Alaska and was built during World War II. Today, it is used for scheduled cargo flights by Alaska Central...
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    Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 (category 1983 in Alaska)
    Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 was an American domestic flight from Cold Bay, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, on June 8, 1983. Shortly after takeoff, the...
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    West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km (250 mi) long and 290 km (180 mi) wide at its mouth. A number of rivers flow into the bay, including the...
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    facility of the United States Air Force in Cold Bay, Alaska. Following its closure, it was redeveloped into Cold Bay Airport. The airport was constructed during...
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  • Cold Bay School". Alaska Public Media. Nelson Lagoon. Retrieved March 31, 2020. Boots, Michelle Theriault (August 8, 2015). "The last kid in Cold Bay"...
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    communities on the coast (see: Bristol Bay), the Alaska Peninsula also is home to several well-known villages: Cold Bay, King Cove, Perryville, Chignik, Chignik...
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    Volcano, or Cold Bay Volcano, is a 6,299 ft (1,920 m) stratovolcano at the southwest end of the Alaska Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Frosty Peak...
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  • oust the Japanese. Since the nearest U.S. military presence was in Cold Bay, Alaska, the U.S. began to construct bases in the western Aleutian Islands...
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    unincorporated community located within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, along the North Slope near the Arctic Ocean...
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    Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an national park of the United States located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge...
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    force of 34,000 American troops. In the spring and summer of 1945, Cold Bay on the Alaska Peninsula was the site of the largest and most ambitious transfer...
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    Advisory Panel, wrote in his 2009 book Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places: Barrow, like most communities in Alaska, looks temporary, like a pioneer...
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    Alaska (/əˈlæskə/ ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It is in the Western United States region. The...
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    Goodnews Bay platinum and iridium mine, hauling miners and company supplies out of his base at Bethel, Alaska. During World War II, the Alaska Territorial...
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    the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 34 at the 2020 census. It is said that the name was derived from travelers getting "cold feet" about making...
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    List of White Alice Communications System sites (category Communications in Alaska)
    United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It featured tropospheric scatter links and line-of-sight microwave...
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    áakʼw, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Врангель, romanized: Vrangel') is a borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,127, down from...
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  • Port Moller Airport (category Airports in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska)
    northeast of the central business district of Cold Bay, in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by the U.S. Department of the...
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    the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state...
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    Base in South Vietnam, with intermediate stops at San Francisco, Seattle, Cold Bay, Tokyo, Naha, Hong Kong, and Cam Ranh. On July 27, 1970, the flight, a...
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    318040. King Cove is on the Pacific side of the Alaska Peninsula. It is 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Cold Bay and 620 miles (1,000 km) southwest of Anchorage...
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    conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope, south to Valdez, on the shores of Prince William Sound in southcentral Alaska. The crude oil pipeline...
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  • Europe, southern Alaska, northern Russia, and areas near the Sea of Okhotsk. The cloudiest place in the United States is Cold Bay, Alaska, with an average...
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    (Southcentral Alaska). The AMHS serves the following communities year-round: Akutan Angoon Bellingham, Washington Chenega Bay Chignik Cold Bay Cordova False...
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  • under the jurisdiction of the 611th Air Support Group, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. Cold Bay AFS was a continental defense radar station constructed to provide...
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  • Yorkshire, England Thornbrough Air Force Base, previous name of Cold Bay Airport in Cold Bay, Alaska, in the United States People Edward Thornbrough (1754-1834)...
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    Arctic Alaska or Far North Alaska is a region of the U.S. state of Alaska generally referring to the northern areas on or close to the Arctic Ocean. It...
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    King Salmon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bristol Bay Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 284 miles (457 km) southwest of Anchorage. As of...
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  • communities in Alaska. Gustavus, formerly known as "Strawberry Point", lies on the outwash plain created by the glaciers that once filled Glacier Bay. Two hundred...
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