AK

AK

abbr. Alaska

AK

abbreviation for 1. (Placename) Alaska 2. Knight of the Order of Australia

AK

Alaska.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.AK - a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union; "Alaska is the largest state in the United States"Alaska, Last FrontierAlaskan pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline - an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of ValdezIditarod Trail - a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to NomeDenali National Park - a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali faultGates of the Arctic National Park - a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall GlacierKatmai National Park - a national park in Alaska featuring mountainsKenai Fjords National Park - a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper minesKobuk Valley National Park - a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sitesLake Clark National Park - a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sitesWrangell-St. Elias National Park - the largest national park of the United States; located in AlaskaAleutian Islands, Aleutians - an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from AlaskaU.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776capital of Alaska, Juneau - the state capital of AlaskaAnchorage - a city in south central Alaska; "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska"Nome - a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th centurySitka - a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906Skagway - a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rushValdez - a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the worldSeward Peninsula - a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic CircleAlexander Archipelago - a group of islands off southeastern AlaskaAlaska Peninsula - a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands)Alaska Range - a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinleyDenali Fault - a major open geological fault in AlaskaMount Hubbard, Hubbard - a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)Inland Passage, Inside Passage - a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern AlaskaKodiak, Kodiak Island - an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784Denali, Mount McKinley, Mt. McKinley, McKinley - a mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America (20,300 feet high)Great Mendenhall Glacier, Mendenhall Glacier - a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in AlaskaPrudhoe Bay - a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range - a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory