Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peninsula of extreme northeast Russia across the Bering Strait from northwest Alaska. It borders on the Chukchi Sea, a section of the Arctic Ocean.
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- noun peninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska
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Putin had his best scientists engineer a 100 mile tall version of one of these things with his face on it and then had it installed on the eastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula.
Palin Explains Why Alaska Experience Gives Her National Security Credentials 2009
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This is confirmed by dating the remains of whales, pinnipeds, and birds (1,500 to 2,680 years) from ancient coastal villages on the Chukchi Peninsula, located on the main migration routes of the animals, and in their breeding and feeding areas [8].
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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There have been substantial shifts in native hunting practices, subsistence activities, and the consumption of marine products on the Chukchi Peninsula during the last decade.
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In Asia, this subspecies occurs on the Chukchi Peninsula, southward to the Kamchatka Peninsula, where it occurs as resident lake populations.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In Asia, northern Dolly Varden occur in Kamchatka the type locality for the name malma northward around the Chukchi Peninsula to Chaun Bay.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In Asia, this subspecies occurs on the Chukchi Peninsula, southward to the Kamchatka Peninsula, where it occurs as resident lake populations.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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On the Chukchi Peninsula, taranetzi has both anadromous and resident lake populations.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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On the Chukchi Peninsula, taranetzi has both anadromous and resident lake populations.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In the Chukchi Peninsula, in Russia, anadromous populations of taranetzi char have a life history similar to that of S. a. erythrinus.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The subspecies name taranetzi was first used to describe this form of Arctic char from the Chukchi Peninsula.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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