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2 dni temu · To the north and east, lies Alaska, which is a string of islands known as the Aleutians. To the west of the CNMI is the Philippines, and to the south and west is Palua, home to Chamorro people. To the south and east is Micronesia, which is home to the Carolinian people, many of which also settled on the CNMI centuries ago.
4 dni temu · Alaska is central to the great circle route connecting North America with Asia by sea and air and is equidistant from most of Asia and Europe. That central location has made Alaska militarily significant since the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians in 1942 during World War II. Alaska’s eastern border with Canada is about 1,538 miles (2,475 km ...
5 dni temu · This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States.
3 dni temu · The world's exclusive economic zones by boundary types and EEZ types. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.. It stretches from the outer limit of the ...
3 dni temu · There are three commonly used types of scales on maps. The first is a written or verbal scale, which represents the ratio of a distance on Earth compared to the same distance on a map. The second is a graphic scale, which is a line or bar that represents the actual distance on the ground.
5 dni temu · Executive summary. As China’s massive military build-up drives rising regional security anxieties, Australia is contributing to a more favourable balance of power through AUKUS. This technology-sharing agreement with the United Kingdom and the United States will see eight nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) in Australian service by the 2050s.
1 dzień temu · Considerable work has been carried out over the past few decades to map coastal erosion rates in Northern Alaska and elsewhere in the Arctic [7,8,9].The Beaufort Sea Alaskan coastline is currently eroding at rates of 0.5–1.15 m per year on average [].Large sections are eroding more rapidly, with the highest erosion rate recorded on decadal timescales over 25 m/year [8,9].
