Seward Peninsula
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula in western Alaska. It projects about 320 km (200 miles) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The entire peninsula is about 330 km (210 miles) long and 145-225 km (90-140 miles) wide.
Nome, Port Clarence and Teller are on the south side of the peninsula. Wales is near the west tip of the peninsula. Cape Prince of Wales, the most western point in the Americas, is on the west tip.
The peninsula was named after William Seward, the United States Secretary of State who negotiated the Purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.
The peninsula is far from the Alaskan town of Seward, which is located in south central Alaska.
