Location of the Gulf of Alaska in the region.
<p>The borders of the sea are approximately based on those from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/29772/1/IHO1953a.pdf">IHO's "Limits of Oceans and Seas" Draft 3rd Edition, 1953</a>, but they're also close to those from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160301222056/http://www.iho.int/mtg_docs/com_wg/S-23WG/S-23WG_Misc/Draft_2002/Draft_2002.htm">IHO's "Limits of Oceans and Seas" Draft 4th Edition, 2002</a>.
</p><p>(Winkel III projection centred 150° East and standard parallels at 50°28'.)
</p><p>The map was created using data from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://naturalearthdata.com/">Natural Earth</a>, with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/mbloch/mapshaper/">mapshaper</a>.  (Natural Earth Data is in the public domain.)  For reproducibility purposes, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/aplaice/svg_sea_maps/tree/aa3754d64bbc611d559366e0fad49c395c0b722b">this</a> was the set of scripts used.
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The style of the map was generally intended to follow that of the <a class="external text" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kartenwerkstatt/Positionskarten">German Locator maps project</a>, except for the highlight colour of the sea, for which dark blue (#4790c8) was used.
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