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Alaska Peninsula brown bear
Alaska Peninsula brown bear, coastal Ursus arctos population of the Alaska Peninsula, once classed as subspecies U. a. gyas/dalii; genetically close to Kodiak and Kamchatka bears, among the largest brown bears, centered on Katmai's 2,200 bears.
Alaska Permanent Fund
The Alaska Permanent Fund is a constitutionally protected state fund investing Alaska's mineral royalties, worth $91.9 billion by 2026 and paying an annual dividend to residents since 1982.
Alaska PFC
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) is the Alaska state corporation that manages the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign wealth fund worth $91.9 billion in 2026.
Alaska pollock
Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus), walleye pollock, a North Pacific cod-family fish supporting Earth's second-largest fishery; source of surimi, fish sticks, and Filet-O-Fish, with contentious salmon bycatch.
Alaska Purchase (Продажа Аляски)
Alaska Purchase (Продажа Аляски): the 1867 Treaty of Cession, also called Seward's Folly, by which Russia sold Russian America to the United States for $7.2 million in gold, about two cents an acre, signed March 30, 1867.
Alaska Railroad
The Alaska Railroad is a state-owned railroad in Alaska whose 470-mile main line runs from Seward to Fairbanks, carrying freight and scheduled year-round passenger service.
Alaska Range
The Alaska Range is a 600-mile mountain arc across southern Alaska, highest at Denali (Mount McKinley), 20,310 ft, North America's tallest peak, uplifted along the active Denali fault and heavily glaciated.
Alaska SeaLife Center
Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC), run by the Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science, is Seward, Alaska's public aquarium, marine research, and marine mammal rescue facility, opened in 1998 with Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement funds and AZA-accredited since 2011.
Alaska Thunderfuck
Alaska Thunderfuck (Justin Andrew Honard, born 1985, Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American drag performer, singer, and actor; Drag Race season 5 runner-up, All Stars 2 winner, recording artist, and Oh, Mary! tour star.
Alaska Time Zone
The Alaska Time Zone, also known as Alaska Standard Time, is the United States time zone covering almost all of Alaska at UTC−9, or UTC−8 in daylight saving time.
Alaska y Dinarama
Alaska y Dinarama was a Spanish new wave group formed in Madrid in 1982 and dissolved in 1989, led by singer Alaska with Carlos Berlanga and Nacho Canut.
Alaska-class cruiser
The Alaska class was a class of six large cruisers built for the United States Navy, ordered in 1940, of which only USS Alaska and USS Guam were completed.
Alaska: The Last Frontier
Alaska: The Last Frontier, Discovery Channel reality series (2011–2022, 11 seasons) following the Kilcher family homestead outside Homer, Alaska, settled by Yule and Ruth Kilcher; stars Atz and Otto Kilcher, the former father of singer Jewel.
Alaskan Bush People
Alaskan Bush People is a Discovery Channel reality series (2014-2022, 14 seasons) following Billy, Ami, and their seven Brown children, first in Alaska and later in Washington; it drew persistent accusations of being staged.
Alaskan Coastal
Alaskan Coastal: the shoreline and marine zone of Alaska, the longest U.S. coastline at 66,000 miles, spanning five large marine ecosystems, major fisheries, and rapidly eroding permafrost coasts.
Alaskan husky
Alaskan husky: an unregistered Alaskan sled-dog type, not a recognized breed, with an open studbook. Bred from Alaskan Native village and Eskimo dogs plus outcrosses; the dominant racing sled dog, running the 1,600 km Iditarod.
Alaskan king crab fishing
Alaskan king crab fishing: commercial pot fishery for red, blue, and golden king crab in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska, jointly managed by NOAA, NPFMC, and Alaska DF&G under size-sex-season rules, quota rationalization since 2005, and recent closures from stock collapses.
Alaskan Klee Kai
Alaskan Klee Kai, a small companion dog breed developed in Alaska by Linda Spurlin from the early 1970s to 1988 from Alaskan and Siberian Huskies, Schipperke, and American Eskimo Dog; three sizes, toy to standard, 12–17 inches, UKC-recognized, distinct from the miniature husky.
Alaskan Malamute
Alaskan Malamute: large spitz-type Arctic freight sled dog from the Mahlemut Inuit of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska; AKC-recognized 1935; 75-85 lb standard; heavy loads, short distances, unlike the Siberian Husky.
Alaskan Way Viaduct
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was a 2.2-mile double-decked elevated highway carrying State Route 99 along Seattle's central waterfront, built in the 1950s, damaged by the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, and demolished in 2019.
Alassane Ouattara
Alassane Ouattara (Ado), born 1942, Ivoirian economist and president of Côte d'Ivoire since 2011; former IMF and BCEAO governor, Houphouët-Boigny's last prime minister, winner of the disputed 2010 election, reelected 2015, 2020, and 2025.
Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell, British journalist and Tony Blair's press secretary and director of communications (1994–2003), central figure in the Iraq dossier 'sexing up' row, later author, mental health campaigner, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast.
Alastair Cook
Sir Alastair Cook, born 1984, English left-handed Test opener for Essex and England; England's record Test run-scorer (12,472 runs, 33 centuries), 159 consecutive Tests, captain 2012–2017, knighted 2019, retired 2023.
Alastair Duncan (actor, born 1958)
Alastair Duncan (born 1958, Edinburgh) is a Scottish actor, also credited as Alistair Duncan, known as Mimir in God of War, Celebrimbor in Shadow of Mordor, Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising, and Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman; distinct from the documentary director, artist, and author of the same name.
Alastair Fitter
Alastair Fitter, also published as A. H. Fitter, is a British plant ecologist and Emeritus Professor at York, a 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society known for mycorrhizal research.
Alastair G. W. Cameron
Alastair G. W. Cameron (1925–2005) was a Canadian-born astrophysicist and planetary scientist, a founder of nuclear astrophysics and an independent developer of the giant-impact model of the Moon's formation.
Alastair J. Wood
Alastair J. Wood is a Scottish-born clinical pharmacologist, professor of medicine and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and drug therapy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Alastair King (businessman)
Alastair John Naisbitt King is a British fund manager who founded Naisbitt King Asset Management and served as the 696th Lord Mayor of London from 2024 to 2025.
Alastair M. Buchan
Alastair M. Buchan is a stroke physician-scientist, Professor of Stroke Medicine at Oxford, known for inventing the ASPECTS score used to triage acute stroke patients.
Alastair M. Glass
Alastair M. Glass is an optical-materials physicist known for photorefractive and electro-optic research during a 33-year Bell Labs and Lucent career, and a National Academy of Engineering member.