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Cape Suckling, Suckling Hills

Cape Suckling is an area of wave eroded rocky reefs backed by dunes, and farther inland lie the Suckling Hills and the terminus of the Bering Glacier, about 150 miles (241 km) west-northwest of Yakutat and 73 miles (117 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska.

Tigalda, Krenitzin Islands

Tigalda Island is 12 miles (19 km) long with an area of about 22,400 acres (9,065 ha) and is one of the Krenitzin Islands in the Eastern Aleutians, about 84 miles (135 km) southwest of False Pass and 28 miles (45 km) east of Akutan, Alaska.

Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial, Walakpa Bay

Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial is at Walakpa Bay, a coastal inlet that extends 6 miles (10 km) east from the Chukchi Sea and is fed by a watershed of 56,487 acres (22,860 ha), about 76 miles (123 km) northeast of Wainwright and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.

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Sandman Reefs, Aleutian Islands

Sandman Reefs, Aleutian Islands

Sandman Reefs are a group of islets, reefs, and wave-washed rocks between the Pavlof Islands and Deer Island in the north, and extending south almost to the Sanak Islands, about 78 miles (126 km) southwest of Sand Point and 24 miles (39 km) south of King Cove, Alaska.

Burr Point, Augustine Volcano

Burr Point, Augustine Volcano

Burr Point is a headland on Augustine Volcano in Cook Inlet, about 108 miles (174 km) north-northwest of Kodiak and 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska.

Berg Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Berg Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Berg Bay is in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and extends west for 4 miles (6.5 km) off Sitakaday Narrows near the mouth of Glacier Bay, about 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Hoonah, and 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Gustavus, Alaska.

Ekuk Fisheries, Nushagak Bay

Ekuk Fisheries, Nushagak Bay

Ekuk is a small village located on Ekuk Spit on the eastern shore of Nushagak Bay, a branch of Bristol Bay, about 16 miles (26 km) south-southwest of Dillingham and 1.3 (2.1 km) miles southwest of Clarks Point, Alaska.

Falling Glacier, Kings Bay

Falling Glacier, Kings Bay

Falling Glacier starts at the northwest end of the Sargent Icefield in the Chugach Mountains and flows northwest for 3 miles (4.8 km) to the eastern shore of Kings Bay, about 39 miles (63 km) northeast of Seward and 20 miles (32 km) south-southeast of Whittier, Alaska.

Point MacKenzie, Knik Arm

Point MacKenzie, Knik Arm

Point MacKenzie is on the northern shore of Cook Inlet, at the entrance to Knik Arm, about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Eagle River and 3.2 miles (5 km) northwest of downtown Anchorage, Alaska.

Chignik Fisheries, Chignik Lagoon

Chignik Fisheries, Chignik Lagoon

Chignik Fisheries is a facility, formerly owned and operated as a cannery by Wards Cove Packing Company, located on the northwest shore of Chignik Lagoon, southwest of Dago Point, about 44 miles (71 km) south of Port Heiden and 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Perryville, Alaska.

Princeton Glacier, Nassau Fjord

Princeton Glacier, Nassau Fjord

Princeton Glacier is on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula, about 37 miles (60 km) south-southeast of Whittier and 38 miles (61 km) east-northeast of Seward, Alaska.

Lincoln Rock Light, Clarence Strait

Lincoln Rock Light, Clarence Strait

Lincoln Rock and Lincoln Island are small islets in Clarence Strait in Southeast Alaska, about 63 miles (102 km) northwest of Ketchikan and 31 miles (50 km) southwest of Wrangell, Alaska.

Douglas River Tidal Flats, Kamishak Bay

Douglas River Tidal Flats, Kamishak Bay

Douglas River starts at the terminus of an unnamed glacier on the northwest flank of Fourpeaked Mountain in the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, and flows north for 28 miles (45 km) to Kamishak Bay, about 108 miles (174 km) northeast of King Salmon and 89 miles (144 km) southwest of Homer, Alaska.

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This ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in global temperature from 1850 (top) to 2019 (bottom). Each stripe represents the average global temperature for one year. The average temperature from 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red. The colour scale goes from -0.7°C to +0.7°C. The data are from the UK Met Office HadCRUT4.6 dataset. 

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