Seward Peninsula
The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska whose westernmost point is Cape Prince of Wales. The peninsula projects about 200 mi into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Alaska
- Also known as: “Kaviak Peninsula”, “Nome Peninsula”, “Prince of Wales Peninsula”, and “Sumner Peninsula”
Seward Peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: Nome, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.33333° or 65° 20′ northLongitude
-164.25° or 164° 15′ westElevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
92QQ8QM2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 7770570886OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsula
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Satellite Map
Discover Seward Peninsula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Seward Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “‘شبه جزيرة سيوارد’”
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة سيوارد”
- Azerbaijani: “Sevard yarımadası”
- Belarusian: “Сьюард (паўвостраў)”
- Belarusian: “Сьюард”
- Bulgarian: “Сюърд (полуостров)”
- Bulgarian: “Сюърд”
- Catalan: “península de Seward”
- Catalan: “Península de Seward”
- Cebuano: “Seward Peninsula”
- Chinese: “苏厄德半岛”
- Czech: “Sewardův poloostrov”
- Dutch: “Seward Peninsula”
- Estonian: “Sewardi poolsaar”
- Finnish: “Sewardin niemimaa”
- French: “péninsule de Seward”
- French: “Péninsule de Seward”
- German: “Seward-Halbinsel”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי סיוורד”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Seward”
- Italian: “penisola di Seward”
- Italian: “Penisola di Seward”
- Japanese: “スワード半島”
- Latvian: “Sjūarda pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Siuardo pusiasalis”
- Polish: “Seward”
- Portuguese: “Península de Seward”
- Russian: “Сьюард (полуостров)”
- Russian: “Сьюард”
- Slovenian: “Sewardov polotok”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Seward”
- Spanish: “Península de Seward”
- Swedish: “Sewardhalvön”
- Thai: “คาบสมุทรซูเอิร์ด”
- Turkish: “Seward Yarımadası”
- Ukrainian: “Сьюард”
- Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Seward”
- Western Frisian: “Seward-skiereilân”
- Western Frisian: “Sewardskiereilân”
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