- Alaskan pipeline
- nounan oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez• Syn: ↑trans-Alaska pipeline• Part Holonyms: ↑Alaska, ↑Last Frontier, ↑AK
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