The Great Plains

Feature Name		Type		Latitude		Longitude		GNIS ID		View Map
Anaktuvuk Plateau		Plain		Unknown		Unknown		1893309
Chandalar Shelf		Plain		N68.0461°		W149.6086°		1400142		View Map
Clinker Plateau		Plain		N56.6000°		W169.6667°		1893958		View Map
Cushing Plateau		Plain		N58.9667°		W136.3333°		1894038		View Map
Jagged Boulder Plateau		Plain		N63.7592°		W145.4044°		1404065		View Map
Macomb Plateau		Plain		N63.5997°		W144.6867°		1405854		View Map

The plains in Alaska are known as "tundra" and they are much like a normal desert; only much cooler in the winter. The tundra doesn't have very many trees, it mostly consists of ground cover plants, shrubs, rocks, and boulders.

Arctic Plains & Mountains – Alaska

Level IV Ducks Unlimited conservation priority area, part of the most important area for sea ducks in the world

The Arctic Coastal Plain contains one of the largest and most stable collections of wetlands in North America, bounded on the north and west by the Arctic Ocean and stretching eastward to the international boundary with the Yukon Territory. This poorly drained, treeless coastal plain rises gradually from sea level to the adjacent foothills and then abruptly into the glaciated Brooks Mountain range. The poor surface drainage results in wet tundra habitats that are dominated by mosses and herbaceous sedges and grasses on the coastal plain. Numerous thaw lakes and wetlands are also present. Many of the shallow thaw-lake wetlands are of greatest value to breeding waterfowl.