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Managed retreat
Populated coastal places in Alaska on the Arctic Ocean
Populated places in the Seward Peninsula

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development

The Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED) is a department within the government of Alaska.

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Alaska House of Representatives

The Alaska State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Alaska Senate

The Alaska State Senate is the upper house in the Alaska State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Alaska Time Zone

The Alaska Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting nine hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−09:00).

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Area code 907 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Alaska, except for the small southeastern community of Hyder, which uses area codes 236, 250, and 778 of neighboring Stewart, British Columbia.

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Bearded seal

The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean.

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Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is one of the most remote Protected areas of the United States, located on the Seward Peninsula.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Bering Strait School District

Bering Strait School District (BSSD) is a school district in northwestern Alaska, United States, serving approximately 1,700 students in grades K-12 in fifteen isolated villages.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Chukchi Sea

The Chukchi Sea (Chukótskoye móre), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Donny Olson

Donald C. "Donny" Olson (born June 18, 1953) is an American physician, attorney, commercial pilot, reindeer herder, and politician, currently serving as a member of the Alaska Senate since 2001.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Fermented meat

Fermented meat is an important preservation process which has evolved for meat but is rarely used alone.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George Aden Ahgupuk

George Aden Ahgupuk (October 8, 1911–April 1, 2001), also called Twok (Tuwaaq in the Modern Iñupiaq orthography), was an Eskimo-American artist known for his paintings and drawings of Inupiaq life.

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Gleb Shishmaryov

Gleb Semyonovich Shishmaryov (Глеб Семёнович Шишмарёв; 1781 - November 3, 1835, Saint Petersburg) was a rear admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. Shishmaref, Alaska and Gleb Shishmaryov are Chukchi Sea.

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Herbie Nayokpuk

Herbie Nayokpuk (June 12, 1929 – December 2, 2006) (Iñupiaq pronunciation: Niiqpaq) nicknamed the "Shishmaref Cannonball", was an Inupiaq musher, known for his cheerful and straight-ahead demeanor It is said that "no musher in Iditarod history has been more admired, more respected or better liked than Herbie Nayokpuk.".

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Iñupiaq language

Iñupiaq or Inupiaq, also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Iñupiat

The Inupiat (singular: Iñupiaq) are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. Shishmaref, Alaska and Iñupiat are Chukchi Sea.

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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, more commonly known as The Iditarod, is an annual long-distance sled dog race held in Alaska in early March.

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Imperial Russian Navy

The Imperial Russian Navy operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917.

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Juneau, Alaska

Juneau (Dzánti K'ihéeni), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alaska, located in the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle. Shishmaref, Alaska and Juneau, Alaska are cities in Alaska.

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List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska

The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 1 unorganized borough.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Moose

The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Neal Foster

Neal Winston Foster (born May 29, 1972) is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 39th District, which is centered on Nome, Alaska.

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Nome Census Area, Alaska

Nome Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska, mostly overlapping with the Seward Peninsula. Shishmaref, Alaska and Nome Census Area, Alaska are Chukchi Sea.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Otto von Kotzebue

Otto von Kotzebue (30 December 1787 - 15 February 1846) was a Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Permafrost

Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Reindeer

The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.

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Rock ptarmigan

The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Sarichef Island

Sarichef Island (Inupiaq: Qigiqtaq or Kigiqtaq) is a long and narrow coastal island on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of Alaska.

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Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

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Shishmaref Airport

Shishmaref Airport (Inupiaq: Qigiqtam Mizrvia) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Shishmaref, a village in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Shishmaref, Alaska and Shishmaref Airport are Chukchi Sea.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishmaref,_Alaska

Also known as Kigiktaq, Native Village of Shishmaref, Qigiqtaq, Shishmaref, Shishmaref, AK, UN/LOCODE:USSHH.

, U.S. state, United States, United States Census Bureau, Walrus, ZIP Code, 2010 United States census, 2020 United States census.

Shishmaref, Alaska, the Glossary

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See also

Managed retreat

Populated coastal places in Alaska on the Arctic Ocean

Populated places in the Seward Peninsula

References