North Slope

noun

1. the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.

Example Sentences

North Slope oil companies, meanwhile, are engineering projects to include more chilling devices to help insulate the tundra their infrastructure sits on from the effects of climate change.

From Washington Post

Two of these occurred on the north slope of Epomeo, and the third on the west flank of Monte Rotaro.

From Project Gutenberg

Not a boat was in sight, and the birds on the north slope seemed as undisturbed as their fellows on the south.

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The old, deep-cut, yellow road winds around the north slope of the hill southward of the house a few hundred yards.

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The north slope drops precipitously 4200 feet to the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne.

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This female was first trapped as a subadult on October 5, 1948, at a house in brush on the upper part of a north slope.

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