| 单词 | alaskan pipeline |
| 释义 | Alaskan pipelineAn oil pipeline that runs eight hundred miles from oil reserves in Prudhoe Bay, on the northern coast of Alaska, to the port of Valdez, on Alaska's southern coast, from which the oil can be shipped to markets. Also called the Trans-Alaska pipeline. notes for Alaskan pipelineAfter oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, construction of the pipeline was delayed for several years, as conservationists warned against the effects of the pipeline on the ecosystems through which it would run. notes for Alaskan pipelineIn 1989 an environmental disaster occurred when an oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, ran aground and leaked millions of gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, causing the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Words nearby Alaskan pipelineAlaska Current, Alaska-Hawaii time, Alaska Highway, Alaskan, Alaskan malamute, Alaskan pipeline, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska Purchase, Alaska Range, Alas, poor Yorick!, Alastair The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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