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Someone asked me if that girl was Hungary, so I answered, 'I don't know, Alaska...'
But seriously, folks...
...the name was first used by Russian explorers in the 18th century when they borrowed it from the Aleut word 'alaxsxaq', which literally meant: 'the object toward which the action of the sea is directed'.
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