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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Alaska on an inlet of Prince William Sound. Founded as a supply center for the goldfields in 1898, it is the southern terminus of the oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay. An oil spill in the waters of the sound caused extensive environmental damage in 1989.

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  • proper noun A city in Alaska.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world

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