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Prudhoe Bay, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 5
Housing Units (2000): 1
Land area (2000): 416.264698 sq. miles (1078.120573 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 141.758927 sq. miles (367.153919 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 558.023625 sq. miles (1445.274492 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64380
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 70.325490 N, 148.711387 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99734
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Usage examples of "prudhoe bay".

I don't mean that the way it sounds, but just let him worry awhile in Prudhoe Bay until we're ready.

Looks like we've found the biggest goddamned oil field ever, bigger 'n the Persian Gulf, bigger 'n Mexico, damned sight bigger than Prudhoe Bay and Western Canada combined.

We let those polluting bastards drill oil in Prudhoe Bay, but that's it!

East of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay was a piece of tundra, over a thousand square miles of it, and geologists for British Petroleum and Atlantic Richfield - the two companies that had largely exploited the Alaskan North Slope, built the pipeline, and therefore helped cause the Exxon Valdez disaster-had made their public pronouncement.

We started drilling and Prudhoe Bay turned out to be the largest deposit of oil ever found in North America.

For years Harper had run his own successful public-relations firm, staging predictable dumb stunts like putting a snow machine on the beach in January, or mailing a ripe Florida orange to every human being in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Romulus bought it to send up to Prudhoe Bay, but Barbara has authority to divert it for our use.

Nome had fallen, Fairbanks had fallen, Prudhoe Bay and the American north slope oil fields had fallen, and then been destroyed by the Americans themselves using nuclear demolition devices.