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Seward Peninsula

peninsula of W Alas. on the Bering Strait: c. 200 mi (321 km) long

Etymology: after William Henry Seward, who directed the purchase of Alaska from Russia (1867)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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