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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A strait of southern Alaska between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island. Cook Inlet is at its northern end.
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Examples
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Anna gazed out to the west, toward the dim mountains across Shelikof Strait.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010
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Low-temperature incubation of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) eggs from the southeast Bering Sea shelf and Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska.
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The KBRR facilities provide an excellent geographic location to access and monitor the waters flowing from the Gulf of Alaska into Cook Inlet, as well as those waters flowing into Shelikof Strait.
Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Alaska 2008
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The program boundaries extend to the east as far as the Pye Islands in Kenai Fjords National Park, to the south as far as Shuyak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, to the west across Shelikof Strait and Cook Inlet, and to the north as far as Kenai.
Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Alaska 2008
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Katmai is a peak of 6,970 feet altitude, on treacherous Shelikof Strait, opposite Kodiak Island.
The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903
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Some of the best-known bear-watching spots are on the mainland across the Shelikof Strait from Kodiak.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Some of the best-known bear watching spots are on the mainland just across the Shelikof Strait from Kodiak.
NYT > Global Home By TED O’CALLAHAN 2011
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The KBRR facilities provide an excellent geographic location to access and monitor the waters flowing from the Gulf of Alaska into Cook Inlet, as well as those waters flowing into Shelikof Strait.
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The program boundaries extend to the east as far as the Pye Islands in Kenai Fjords National Park, to the south as far as Shuyak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago, to the west across Shelikof Strait and Cook Inlet, and to the north as far as Kenai.
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Ashes kept falling for three days across the Shelikof Strait on Kodiak Island, accumulating one foot in the main town.
Green Diary AditiJ 2010
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