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  • On the waterfront in the town of New Arkhangelsk, on the western side of the big island that the Russians called Baranof and the natives called Sitka, two men stood looking out over the harbor.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • For instance, brown bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) are present only on Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof Islands (the so called ABC islands).

    Northern Pacific coastal forests 2008

  • They were describing a huge two-year circle, returning to their departure point, the Sitka Station beneath Baranof Island, off the Alaskan shore.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • They were describing a huge two-year circle, returning to their departure point, the Sitka Station beneath Baranof Island, off the Alaskan shore.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • Hotel management didn't know it but Suite 604 of the Baranof served as a cash machine for crooked politicians and a favor bank for the oil industry; all caught on tape and thousands of secret videos and audio recordings by the FBI.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007 2007

  • We analyzed 286 nucleotides of the middle portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of 61 brown bears from three locations in Alaska and 55 polar bears from Arctic Canada and Arctic Siberia to test our earlier observations of paraphyly between polar bears and brown bears as well as to test the extreme uniqueness of mitochondrial DNA types of brown bears on Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof ABC islands of southeastern Alaska.

    Holocene Optimum « Climate Audit 2007

  • JOHNS: It was a room just like this one in the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, Alaska just a few blocks away from the state capital that broke this case wide open.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007 2007

  • Two superb guides that I've hunted black bears with are James Boyce of Baranof Expeditions, 907-7447-3934; www. baranofexpeditions.com and Scott Newman, 907-772-4878; seaguide@alaska.net.

    Dream Hunts 2003

  • The Mount Roberts trail actually begins downtown, a few blocks away from the capitol building and just up the hill from the Baranof (Juneau's best hotel, for both location and amenities; for information call 800-544-0970).

    Scaling Alaska's Heights 1997

  • Baranof, who asked for a priest for Sitka, the new headquarters of the Fur Company.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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