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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska east of the Alaska Peninsula. It was the site of the first permanent Russian settlement in the area (1784).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784
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Examples
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The nearest Coast Guard base on Kodiak Island is 1,000 miles away from the nearest prospects.
Gulf Spill Report Emphasizes Risks Of Arctic Drilling AP 2011
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The nearest Coast Guard base on Kodiak Island is 1,000 miles away from the nearest prospects.
Gulf Spill Report Emphasizes Risks Of Arctic Drilling AP 2011
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Sarah Palin incorrectly calls Alaska's Kodiak Island the largest island in America in a Facebook post endorsing a Senate candidate in New Hampshire.
Sarah Palin's Endorsement In New Hampshire Senate Race Includes Geography Goof 2010
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Sarah Palin incorrectly calls Alaska's Kodiak Island the largest island in America in a Facebook post endorsing a Senate candidate in New Hampshire.
Sarah Palin's Endorsement In New Hampshire Senate Race Includes Geography Goof 2010
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It had been a while before a skiff could safely make it to the port on Kodiak Island, where they could call.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010
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"Sarah Palin's Alaska" — which will feature Palin and husband Todd "on his commercial salmon fishing boat on Bristol Bay, roughing it in a logging camp or spotting grizzly bears while camping on Kodiak Island," according to an internal summary Collins quotes from — poses consistency problems for TLC's parent company, Discovery Communications, the purveyor of such classics as Discovery's "Planet Earth" and "Life" and the parent of Planet Green and Treehugger.
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In 1969, she spent a year as finance director of a hospital on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Mary Ann Luby, nun who advocated for the homeless, dies at 70 Nathan Rott 2010
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Vance, who worked the season in a salmon cannery near Kodiak Island, planned to transfer to Syracuse University to study international relations.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Outfitted with a giant horseshoe lunch counter and an eight-piece orchestra when launched for the Seattle-Bremerton run in 1935, the Kalakala was converted to shrimp processing in 1967, then jammed into an earthen berth on Alaska's Kodiak Island.
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Some of the largest islands in North America are found here, including the eastern portion of Kodiak Island and Prince of Wales Island.
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