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Wales, Alaska is located in Nome County. Zip codes in Wales, AK include 99783.

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Feb 6, 2013 | Capital City Weekly

Southeast History: The salvage ship Edith in Alaska

The steam freighter "Edith" in 1915 headed to Southeast Alaska to begin the salvage on the steamer "Ramona" at the Spanish Islands, the "Olympia" in Prince William Sound, and possibly help with the salvage of the freighter "Delhi" on Straits Island.

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Wed Jan 16, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

How many Eskimo words for 'snow'? Maybe more than you think

Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of the local Inuit people, joining their sleigh rides, trading caribou skins and learning their folklore.

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