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St. Lawrence Island - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_Island
St. Lawrence Island (Central Siberian Yupik: Sivuqaq) is located west of mainland Alaska in the Bering Sea, just south of the Bering Strait. The village of Gambell, located on the northwest cape of the island, is 36 miles (58 kilometers) from the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East. The island is part of Alaska, but closer ...
Pop. density‎: ‎0.28 /km2 (0.73 /sq mi)
Population‎: ‎1,352 (2010)
Area‎: ‎1,791.56 sq mi (4,640.1 km2)
Location‎: ‎Bering Sea
Geography · ‎Villages · ‎Prehistory · ‎History

Photos: Daily life on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island - Anchorage Daily ...

https://www.adn.com/arctic/slideshow/photos-daily...alaskas-st-lawrence-island/.../12/
Sep 11, 2012 - Off the far western edge of the North American continent, nearly 1500 people struggle in a daily battle for survival on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.

Travel Alaska - St. Lawrence Island

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Information on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska including parks, maps, attractions, travel tips, pictures and video.
Jul 29, 2016 - SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND, Alaska - In one of the biggest land conveyances in US history, the federal government officially signed the title to Saint Lawrence Island over to its native population. More than one million acres of land was researched and surveyed by the Bureau of Land Management in ...
flying from Nome to Gambell on Bering Air (spring) Gambell in Winter Landing at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska coming in from Savoonga looking North Views of Gambell from the south (August / September) - 2015. Coming in for landing from Savoonga Takeoff from Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska looking back ...

St Lawrence Island - Alaska Forum - TripAdvisor

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Sep 27, 2012 - Answer 1 of 4: We are interested in visiting St Lawrence Island for a possible overnight stay. We heard (don't know if the source was reliable) that the natives will now allow you to look for artifacts for a fee (?) We would like to do this. Thanks for any...

St. Lawrence Island, a birding wonderland - StarTribune.com

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Jan 31, 2017 - There really is a place in Alaska from which you can see Russia. It's the northwest corner of St. Lawrence Island, an hour's flight into the Bering Sea from the Nome airport. Stand at the shore of the island village of Gambell. If, on a rare sunny day, you can look beyond the thousands of birds flying by, the sun ...

St. Lawrence Island Encyclopedia Arctica 12: Alaska, Geography and ...

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001 | Vol_XII-0248. EA[Alaska-Geography (Henry B. Collins, Jr.) ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND. Description. St. Lawrence, the largest island in Bering Sea, lies about 150 miles south of Bering Strait. It is approximately 100 miles long, East to West, and has an average width of about 20 miles. Its western extremity is only 40 miles ...

In Remote Alaskan Villages, Teachers Struggle to Make School ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/02/in...alaskan...to.../273596/
Feb 28, 2013 - Two fifth-grade girls sit outside their school in Gambell, one of two villages on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island. (Sarah Garland). Wagner Iworrigan, a 17-year-old high school senior on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, knows a lot about biology, meteorology, and math. He's an expert at telling whether a walrus is ...

Cleaning Up a Legacy of Pollution on an Alaskan Island - The New ...

https://www.nytimes.com/.../native-alaskans-study-and-clean-up-a-legacy-of-pollution...
Aug 3, 2015 - ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, Alaska — America's Far North cherishes its image of wild purity in a landscape so vast it can sometimes seem barely touched by people. But the roughly 600 military installations across Alaska — some dating from World War II, others built during the Cold War — tell a different ...

St. Lawrence Island - New World Encyclopedia

www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/St._Lawrence_Island
Feb 24, 2009 - St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish and Russian explorer Vitus Bering discovered the island on the feast day of St. Lawrence, August 10, 1728. It is the largest island in the Bering Sea, sixth largest in ...
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David Assard, 82, survived a crash after his Navy patrol plane was shot down by Russian jets in 1955. The crew ...
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June 5, 2012; Leaving Gambell, Alaska on Bering Air.

The influence of wind and ice on spring walrus hunting success on St ...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064513001148
by HP Huntington - ‎2013 - ‎Cited by 14 - ‎Related articles
St. Lawrence Island Yupik hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, take hundreds of Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) each year. The harvest and associated effort (hunting trips taken), however, are variable from year to year and also from day to day, influenced by physical environmental factors among other ...

A long pollen record from St. Lawrence island, Bering Sea (Alaska ...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018267900041
by PA Colinvaux - ‎1967 - ‎Cited by 29 - ‎Related articles
A core of lake sediments from St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea has been examined by means of pollen analysis as part of an investigation into the environmental history of Arctic Alaska. A three-zone pollen sequence is compared with the three pollen zones at Imuruk Lake which span the Wisconsin Glaciation and the ...

St. Lawrence Island, Alaska | Maruskiya's of Nome Alaska Native Art

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St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. St. Lawrence Island, or Sivuqaq in Siberian Yupik, lies in the northern reaches of the Bering Sea, 164 miles west of Nome. There are two communities on the Island, Savoonga and Gambell. Savoonga is on the northern coast and has about 700 residents while Gambell lies on the northwest cape ...

Dispatch from Alaska's St. Lawrence Island - The Pew Charitable Trusts

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Aug 14, 2013 - The fog is thick. We cannot see our destination, the Punuk Islands, three rocky lumps a few miles east of the much larger St. Lawrence Island in the northern Bering Sea. So we resort to the age-old methods of listening for waves breaking on a shore and watching puffins, cormorants, and murres to see ...

THE LAST TATTOOS OF ST. LAWRENCE, ALASKA | | LARS KRUTAK

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Nov 23, 2012 - Sadie Sepila of Savoonga. Sadie was the last St. Lawrence Island Yupik woman to wear chin stripes (tamlughun) and hand tattoos (igaq). THE HISTORY OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND (Sivuqaq) Yupik tattoo spans some 2,000 years and one-hundred miles of volcanic island rock in the north Bering Sea.

[PDF]On the Land Mammals of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

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by RL Rausch - ‎1953 - ‎Cited by 13 - ‎Related articles
ON THE LAND MAMMALS OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, ALASKA. Robert Rausch. The mammals occurring on St. Lawrence Island represent species which are widely distributed in boreal regions. They are not well known, hoiwever, and are poorly represented in colIections. In the past, some of these mammals have been ...

[PDF]Preliminary Geologic Investigations of Western St. Lawrence Island ...

https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0684c/report.pdf
by WSL Island - ‎Related articles
FIGURE 1. Index map of Alaska showing location of St. Lawrence Island and area of this report-. 2. Reconnaissance geologic map of western St. Lawrence Island_____________________. 3. Exposures of Sevuokuk pluton along west coast of St. Lawrence Island ___._____-_. 4. Location of analyzed bedrock samples ...

Studies on Echinococcus alveolaris (Klemm, 1883), from St. Lawrence ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13429439
by SK MANKAU - ‎1957 - ‎Cited by 11 - ‎Related articles
Studies on Echinococcus alveolaris (Klemm, 1883), from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. I. Histogenesis of the alveolar cyst in white mice. MANKAU SK. PMID: 13429439; [Indexed for MEDLINE] ...

St. Lawrence Island assistance centers offer state aid for storm repairs ...

https://www.alaskapublic.org/.../st-lawrence-island-assistance-centers-offer-state-aid-fo...
Feb 20, 2017 - The Department of Homeland Security and emergency management, or DHSEM, set up assistance centers on St. Lawrence Island after Governor Bill Walker issued a disaster declaration almost two weeks ago. Listen now. Downstairs in the City office building where community bingo is normally played, ...

St Lawrence Island Advisory Committee, Alaska Department of Fish ...

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St Lawrence Island Advisory Committee. The St. Lawrence Island AC has 15 seats, of which six are currently filled. The St. Lawrence Island AC has jurisdiction over Game Management Unit 22, Area Q3 for King Crab and Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area Finfish. It is an active AC meeting 1-2 times per year focusing ...

Inupiaq and St. Lawrence Island Yupik | Cultures of Alaska | Education ...

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ALASKA'S NATIVE PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED INTO 11 DISTINCT CULTURES, SPEAKING 11 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND TWENTY-TWO DIFFERENT DIALECTS. IN ORDER TO TELL THE STORIES OF THIS DIVERSE POPULATION, THE ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE CENTER IS ORGANIZED BASED ON FIVE ...

Environmental contamination of the Yupik people of St. Lawrence ...

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Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals that originate primarily from industrial areas in temperate climates are ubiquitous in the Arctic. The people of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, have never directly benefited from the industries that made and profited from use of these chemicals. This striking example of ...

NMNH - Repatriation Office - Reports - Alaska - St. Lawrence Island

https://anthropology.si.edu/repatriation/reports/regional/alaska/st_lawernce_island.htm
Executive Summary. Inventory and Assessment of Human Remains on St. Lawrence Island, Bering Straits, Alaska in the National Museum of Natural History. Region: Alaska Associated Cultures: Yu'pik, Bering Straits Regional Corporation. 1996. In compliance with the repatriation provisions of Public Law 101-185 (20 ...

BLM finalizes transfer of St. Lawrence Island to village corporations ...

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Jul 28, 2016 - BLM finalizes transfer of St. Lawrence Island to village corporations. Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze signs a patent transferring 1 million acres of land to Kukulget Inc. of Savoonga and the Sivuqaq Inc. of Gambell during a ceremony on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, July 27, 2016.

Warnings for St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast, Alaska ...

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St. Lawrence Island corporations get clear title to their land | The ...

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Aug 5, 2016 - The federal Bureau of Land Management handed over permanent title to St. Lawrence Island to Alaska Natives last week.
Title: The schoolhouse farthest west, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Contributor Names: [Gambell, V. C.], -1898. [from old catalog]; Created / Published: New York, Woman's board of home missions of the Presbyterian church [1901]; Subject Headings: - Missions--Alaska--Saint Lawrence Island: - Eskimos--Alaska ...

St. Lawrence Island, Alaska | Library of Congress

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Photographs of the land and people of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, in 1940. Individuals, families, and other groups are pictured in daily domestic life, building and repairing sleds and boats, preparing hides, preparing to harpoon, group games and sports, netting fish, and ceremonial singing. Various buildings, huts, and ...

Please donate to the St. Lawrence Island Food Crisis Fund today ...

www.akaction.org/please-donate-to-the-st-lawrence-island-food-crisis-fund-today/
Our friends and families on St. Lawrence Island (SLI), Alaska are facing an urgent food shortage. ACAT has set up a donation fund to provide immediate food assistance.We have worked closely with the communities of Savoonga and Gambell on community-based research and advocacy since our founding in 1997. We are ...

Details - The schoolhouse farthest west, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ...

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St. Lawrence Island Small Mammals Survey | Alaska Center for ...

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St. Lawrence Island Small Mammals Survey. photo of St. Lawrence Small Mammal Surveys. This project was funded through a co-operative agreement between the Alaska Center for Conservation Science – Zoology Program and The Alaska Department of Fish and Game – Threatened, Endangered and Diversity Program.

Archaeological Excavations at Kukulik, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ...

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Archaeological Excavations at Kukulik, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska [Otto William Geist, Froelich G. Rainey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

Map of St Lawrence Island, Alaska, showing both villages and the ...

https://www.researchgate.net/.../Map-of-St-Lawrence-Island-Alaska-showing-both-villag...
St Lawrence Island (SLI), the largest island in the Bering Sea, is a mountainous landscape of volcanic rock and tundra that lies 240 km south of the Arctic Circle. The Island is about 140 km long and 13–36 km wide. It is situated only 61 km from the Chukotka Peninsula of northern Russia, closer than to the Alaska mainland ...

[PDF]Northeast Cape, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska - Agency for Toxic ...

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/pha/.../17_280825-A_NE-CAPE-fs_508.pdf
Northeast Cape, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Evaluation of potential health impacts of exposures to chemicals from the Formerly. Used Defense Site (FUDS) at Northeast Cape. The Native Village of Savoonga asked the Agency for Toxic. Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to evaluate the possible health effects ...

Tattooing Found on a 1600 Year Old Frozen, Mummified Body from St ...

https://www.cambridge.org/...st-lawrence-island-alaska/3BB419B2EF779D12CBBC5469...
by GS Smith - ‎1975 - ‎Cited by 45 - ‎Related articles
Jan 20, 2017 - Beach erosion at Cape Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, revealed the frozen, naturally mummified body of a 1600 year old Eskimo woman. The body has extensive tattooing on the dorsal aspects of both the right and left forearms, hands and fingers. The tattooing pattern corresponds with known ...

Cuspate Spits of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska | The Journal of Geology ...

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/626239
by RL Fisher - ‎1955 - ‎Cited by 34 - ‎Related articles
Field and laboratory studies of large triangular projections in the lagoons of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea indicate that these deposits were built by longshore drift of beach sand and were modified by currents in the lagoons. The term "cuspate spit" is suggested to designate such features. Possible origins include (1) ...

Further Additions to the Known Avifauna of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

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Further Additions to the Known Avifauna of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Herbert Friedmann. Attachment, Size. Attachment, Size. PDF icon p0091-p0091.pdf, 102.22 KB. Journal: Condor. Volume: 39. Issue: 2 (March-April). Section: From Field and Study. Year: 1937. Pages: 91. Rate this article. 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5. Total votes: 0.

Airport Photographs – St. Lawrence Island, Western Norton Sound ...

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters.../fs/alaskan/alaska/.../stlaw/
May 19, 2017 - Notice – These airport photos and data are only updated once per year or less and are not guaranteed to be error free. The data date on each page is the effective date of the Supplement Alaska from which the overlaid information is extracted. The date of the airport photo, whether from Google Maps or not, ...

Persistent Organochlorine Pesticide Exposure Related to a Formerly ...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15287394.2015.1037412
by S Byrne - ‎2015 - ‎Cited by 21 - ‎Related articles
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, is the largest island in the Bering Sea, located 60 km from Siberia. The island is home to approximately 1600 St. Lawrence Island Yupik residents who live a subsistence way of life. Two formerly used defense sites (FUDS) exist on the island, one of which, Northeast Cape, has been the subject of ...

St. Lawrence Island, Alaska - Kukulik - the Digital Archaeological Record

https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/27953/st-lawrence-island-alaska-kukulik
DOCUMENT. In July 1994, the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, entered into Interagency Agreement No. 1422P852-A4-0015 for the purpose of identifying and locating collections from BLM-administered lands made under ...

St Lawrence Island (Alaska) cruise port schedule | CruiseMapper

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St Lawrence Island is located in Bering Sea - south of Bering Strait and west of mainland Alaska. With length of 90 ml (140 km), width of 22 ml (35 km) and a total area of 1792 ml2 (4640 km2), St Lawrence is the USA's the s6th largest and the world's 113th largest island. Its total population is around 1,400 people. The other ...

Climate Changes Lives of Whalers in Alaska : NPR

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Sep 17, 2007 - St. Lawrence Island is remote and treeless, floating in the Bering Sea 38 miles from Siberia and nearly 200 miles from the mainland of Alaska. It is inhabited by the Yupik people who migrated from Siberia and settled on the island more than 2,000 years ago. There are two villages on St. Lawrence Island, ...

Alaska Native Languages | St. Lawrence Island Yupik

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St. Lawrence Island Yupik (or Central Siberian Yupik) is spoken by about 1,000 people on St. Lawrence Island (Sivuqaq in Yupik). About 90 percent of St. Lawrence Island Yupik people still speak the language, and most children still speak it as a first language. The language is also spoken in Russia, where it is spoken by ...

Presumed Taxodiaceous Fossils from the Paleogene of St ... - Jstor

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1218715
by AA Cridland - ‎1974 - ‎Related articles
ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, ALASKA*. Arthur A. Cridland*:-. Summary. A collection of Paleogene plants reputed to contain distichous short shoots of. Taxodium and Metasequoia (Taxodiaceae) has been studied. The evidence to support this view is weak and it appears that if a genus of the Taxodiaceae is involved, Sequoia.

St. Lawrence Island Yupik - University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Format: paper, audio. Language: St. Lawrence Island Yupik (SY59). Price: $26.00. Book Cover. A Practical Grammar of the St. Lawrence Island Siberian/Yupik Eskimo. by Jacobson, Steven A. Format: paper. Language: St. Lawrence Island Yupik (SY58). Price: $20.00. Book Cover. Atightughnaqellghet: Reading Readiness.

Travels in Remote Alaska Lead to More Remote Travels (U.S. National ...

https://www.nps.gov/articles/travel-in-remote-alaska.htm
Map of St. Lawrence Island in relation to Russia and Alaska. Google Maps. Gambell sits on the Northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island, thirty-six miles off the coast of Siberia. My co-worker Katie and I would be traveling to Gambell to present Bering Land Bridge National Preserve environmental education programs to students ...

St. Lawrence Island Polynya | Audubon Important Bird Areas

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The area is located in the central Bering Sea between St. Lawrence and St. Matthew Islands. Ornithological Summary. During winter, Spectacled Eiders congregate here in exceedingly large and dense flocks in openings in the pack ice. Typically Spectacled Eiders gather in late fall just south of the center of St. Lawrence ...

Dreaming of St. Lawrence Island – KNOM Radio Mission

www.knom.org/wp/blog/2016/04/08/dreaming-of-st-lawrence-island/
Apr 8, 2016 - Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think I'd make it out to the island. I spent three years studying the Bering Strait region while I worked to complete my Master's at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. St. Lawrence Island was smack dab in the middle of every map I ever studied. A trip to the island got within ...

Geologic map of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska (NGMDB) - Web Page ...

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Last updated, October 24, 2013. Created, October 24, 2013. Format, Web Page. License, U.S. Government Work. created, over 4 years ago. id, aa4c3c4c-bff2-4727-a087-ba1d010a25b3. package id, b15c221a-28f4-46ed-b504-e939cea526d6. revision id, 426da82c-c957-4a6f-a0d5-66c584a35e13. state, active ...

Savoonga: Home

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Savoonga is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, one of two on St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Sea. The 2007 Census estimate puts the population at 647. The local economy consists largely of subsistence hunting for walrus, seals, fish, and bowhead whales; the city calls itself the “Walrus Capital of the World”.

Alaska ShoreZone project travels to St. Lawrence Island | Alaska ...

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Jul 22, 2013 - The first Alaska ShoreZone imaging survey of 2013 started this weekend on St. Lawrence Island south of the Bering Strait. The survey takes place from July 20-24, and will include geomorphic and biological resource mapping in addition to low-tide-oblique aerial imagery. This effort will allow users to “fly ...

[PDF]Environmental Contaminants Survey of Spectacled Eiders from St ...

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the presence and effects of contaminants. Photo by Greg Balogh,. USFWS. 4. Finally, atmospheric and marine transport may be exposing spectacled eiders to industrial and agricultural chemicals while they are at sea. Environmental Contaminants. Survey of Spectacled Eiders from. St Lawrence Island, Alaska ...

Environmental Contaminants in Foodstuffs of Siberian Yu'piks from St ...

https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.highlight/.../6305
We have shown that the Siberian Yu'pik people of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska have relatively high serum levels of PCBs and pesticides. This project will examine traditional foods of the Yu'pik people for PCBs, three pesticides and several metals in order to determine which are the most significant sources of exposure, and ...

Commercial potential of seaweeds from St Lawrence Island, Alaska ...

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by WA Roberts - ‎1993 - ‎Cited by 5 - ‎Related articles
Commercial potential of seaweeds from St Lawrence Island, Alaska. 2. Evaluation of market opportunities. Authors; Authors and affiliations. Wayne A. RobertsJr; Michael S. Stekoll. Resource. 38 Downloads; 1 Citations ...

St. Lawrence Island | Envisioning Alaska

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St. Lawrence Island. Boat of St. Lawrence Island. Choris, Ludwig. Inside of St. Lawrence House. Choris, Ludwig. Inhabitants of St. Lawrence island. Choris, Ludwig. Envisioning Alaska by Evguenia Anichtchenko. This project was supported in part by the Alaska Historical Commission and the State of Alaska Office of History ...
Nov 23, 2014 - Gambell is located on the northwest cape of St. Lawrence Island, 200 miles southwest of Nome, in the Bering Sea. The City is 36 miles from the Chukotsk Peninsula, Siberia. St. Lawrence Island has been inhabited intermittently for the past 2,000 years by Yup'ik Eskimos. In the 18th and 19th centuries, over ...

WINGS Birding Tours to Alaska: Gambell – Itinerary

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Feb 12, 2018 - For the veteran birdwatcher there is island birdwatching at Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, where in some years an exciting variety of species from Asia occur. Finally, there is Alaska itself, huge, wild, varied but always beautiful: the icy shores of the Bering Sea and mountainous vastness of the Seward ...

Gambell - Bering Air - Bering Air

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Population: 665. Location: On the Northwest Cape, St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 200 miles west of Nome. Climate: Maritime, shifting with freezing sea ice in the wintertime. ... Alaska Village Tours has this fee built into the package tour cost. Please call ahead or check with your travel agent about paying this fee.
Oct 22, 2017 - KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued six hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Sunday. The Jayhawk helicopter crew located the five adults and one child 25 miles southeast of Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island and transported them to the ...

St. Lawrence Island Vacations | Plan a Trip with St. Lawrence Island ...

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St. Lawrence Island is located just west of the Alaskan mainland, in the Bering Sea closer to Russia. The weather in the Island is mostly cold, with June and July recording its warmest months at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This destination offers a rich historical background including eras of The Cold War, and World War II.

Archeology of St. Lawrence island, Alaska (with 84 plates ...

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Note: "This paper, in essentially its present form, was completed in the fall of 1935, and ... was submitted to the Royal academy of sciences and letters of Denmark in response to a prize competition ... In February 1936 it was awarded the gold medal of the Academy."--Pref. Instance. Label: Archeology of St. Lawrence island, ...

Gambell – Bering Strait Region Health Care

https://www.nortonsoundhealth.org/villages/gambell/
The city was incorporated in 1963. When the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was passed in 1971, Gambell and Savoonga decided not to participate and instead opted for title to the 1.136 million acres of land in the former St. Lawrence Island Reserve. The island is jointly owned by Savoonga and Gambell.

Chemical Contaminants in Traditional Foods from St. Lawrence Island ...

https://www.healthandenvironment.org/partnership_calls/9908
Therefore, Alaska Native peoples and others living in the circumpolar north bear a disproportionate burden of environmental contaminants. At the request of and in collaboration with the Yupik Eskimo people of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska Community Action on Toxics conducted a study to determine contaminant levels in ...

Archaeological excavations at Kukulik, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ...

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Get this from a library! Archaeological excavations at Kukulik, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska : preliminary report. [Otto William Geist; Froelich G Rainey; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs.; United States. Work Projects Administration.]

Coast Guard medevacs man from ATV crash on St. Lawrence Island ...

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Sep 1, 2017 - An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from U.S. Coast Guard forward operating location (FOL) Kotzebue rescued a man who crashed his ATV on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, at 3:32 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 1. Advertisement. The helicopter crew arrived on scene, brought the man aboard, and transported him to ...

Orion Magazine | Tracking Toxics

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MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILES from Alaska's western coastline, and only forty miles from Russia's Chukchi Peninsula, St. Lawrence Island is a mostly flat, wind-battered, and isolated finger of land surrounded by the stormy but fertile waters of the northern Bering Sea. Its volcanic high point, Atuk Mountain, reaches.

Today's Earthquakes in St. Lawrence Island, Alaska - Earthquake Track

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The latest earthquakes in St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.

Archaeological excavations at Kukulik, St. Lawrence island, Alaska

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Archaeological excavations at Kukulik, St. Lawrence island, Alaska; preliminary report by Otto William Geist and Froelich G. Rainey--prepared under the direction of the commissioner of Indian affairs in coöperation with the University of Alaska. Published by special permission of the secretary of the interior.

The Isolated Places In Alaska Where You Can Actually View Russia ...

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Apr 15, 2017 - Russian Views From Alaska. Little Diomede Island, Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, and Wales. By: Courtney Dowd-Stanley. Russia and Alaska are divided from one another by the Bering Strait, which is located in the Pacific Ocean and bordered by the Chukchi Sea to the north and the Bering Sea to the ...

Carnivorous Ground Squirrels on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska ...

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by T Cade - ‎1951 - ‎Cited by 15 - ‎Related articles
Tom Cade; Carnivorous Ground Squirrels on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 32, Issue 3, 1 August 1951, Pages 358–360, https://doi.org/

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: <i>Archaeology of St. Lawrence ...

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by F Laguna - ‎1938
Archaeology of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. HENRY B. COLLINS, JR. (Smithsonian. Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 96, No. 1. xi, 424 pp., 84 pl., 26 figs., map. Washington, 1937.) An enthusiastic reviewer may sometimes feel that the work he is reading de- serves a prize. The present monograph not only deserves but did ...

Entry Derek Seppilu Northeast cape St. Lawrence Island I ... - Alaska.org

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Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Photo Mosaic Photo - I was watching my father in-law hunt this reindeer down on the beach and had an opportunity for the photo.
Feb 13, 2018 - Alaska's Nome Church was blessed during 2017 to have a volunteer construction crew from the Rivers Edge Church in McMinnville, Ore., come to install new windows and siding for the parsonage. The crew was under the direction of Paul Knoblock and included his wife, Tami, plus Lloyd Smith, Carl ...

St Lawrence Island - Picture of Savoonga, Alaska - TripAdvisor

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Savoonga, Alaska Picture: St Lawrence Island - Check out TripAdvisor members' 2 candid photos and videos.

Alaska's Uncertain Food Future - High Country News

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Aug 18, 2014 - On a blindingly bright, frigid April morning, the first whale hunt of the year gets underway in the village of Gambell, Alaska, on the westernmost edge of St. Lawrence Island. Between boulder-sized chunks of ice piled well over eight feet high along the shoreline, crews of three or four men, wearing boots, ...

[PDF]St. Lawrence Island Yupik - Alaska Anthropological Association

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by HG Bandi - ‎Cited by 2 - ‎Related articles
Abstract: The pursuit of scientific data often follows a fortuitous course, as a series of personal discoveries can evolve into a view of the past. In this paper, I recount my personal experiences with the various types of prehistoric armor employed on St. Lawrence Island. The knowledge of armor is preserved in the crafts ...

ST LAWRENCE ISLAND, ALASKA - The Case Centre

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St Lawrence Island, Alaska, located in the Bering Sea, is actually closer to Russia than Alaska. There is very little economic activity on the island, and the native villages of Savoonga and Gambell.

Zone Area Forecast for St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast

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St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast. Tonight. Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s. North winds 15 to 25 mph. Friday. Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s. North winds 15 to 25 mph increasing to around 30 mph in the afternoon.

St. Lawrence Island, Alaska - Marc Lester Photography

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Six-year-old Winter Pelowook holds up walrus ivory from a walrus hunted by her father, Carl Pelowook Jr. at their Savoonga home on April 22, 2017. Carl's mother Jean Pelowook is at left and father, Carl Pelowook Sr. is at right. Savoonga, walrus, sea ice, St. Lawrence Island. Waves break near the shore in Savoonga on ...

Cuspate Spits of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska - SAO/NASA ADS

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by RL Fisher - ‎1955 - ‎Cited by 34 - ‎Related articles
Cuspate Spits of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Authors: Fisher, Robert L. Publication: The Journal of Geology, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 133-142. Publication Date: 03/1955. Origin: CROSSREF. DOI: 10.1086/626239. Bibliographic Code: 1955JG.....63..133F ...

St. Lawrence Island Shrew | American Society of Mammalogists

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Help Us Improve Our Search Tool. Complete Our Survey. Mammal Details. St. Lawrence Island Shrew. Common Name. St. Lawrence Island Shrew. Order. Soricomorpha. Family. Soricidae. Species Name. Sorex jacksoni. Status. Endangered. States. Alaska. Distribution; Notes. St. Lawrence Island Shrew Distribution.

Responding to Natural Disaster at St. Lawrence Island | JVC ...

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Nov 10, 2017 - In our latest AmeriCorps blog, former JV AmeriCorps member Steven Fisher (Anchorage, AK '16-17), who served at the American Red Cross of Alaska, shares his experience serving clients affected by the natural disaster that struck St. Lawrence Island. On January 4, Alaska Dispatch News released notice ...

Echinococcosis on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska | Science

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by LJ THOMAS - ‎1954 - ‎Cited by 12 - ‎Related articles
Echinococcosis on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. See allHide authors and affiliations. Science 31 Dec 1954: Vol. 120, Issue 3131, pp. 1102-1103. DOI: 10.1126/science.120.3131.1102. LYELL J. THOMAS. Find this author on Google Scholar · Find this author on PubMed · Search for this author on this site. BERT B. BABERO.

Caleb Pungowiyi, near the village of Savoonga, Alaska, on St ... - NSF

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Photo of Caleb Pungowiyi holding a bird on St. Lawrence Island. Caleb Pungowiyi, near the village of Savoonga, Alaska, on St. Lawrence Island. Credit: Henry Huntington ...

Golden Gate Audubon SocietyFall birding in Gambell, Alaska - Golden ...

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Oct 11, 2016 - Thus begins a birding day at the Siberian Yupik village of Gambell on the Northwest Cape of treeless St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. The population of 680 native residents swells for a few weeks from mid-May to June and from mid-August to October each year by up to 50 non-islanders who seek a view of ...

Cold War-era military site continues to pollute fish and Yupik people

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Dec 4, 2017 - According to a new study, fish near the Northeast Cape Air Force Station — located on St. Lawrence Island, which is in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Siberia — remain highly contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were dumped and left behind in water and soil after the station ...
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Alaska Native Art – Tagged "St. Lawrence Island Yupik" – Anchorage ...

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Menu Cart 0 · Home · Alaska Native Art · Apparel · Books · Design · Jewelry · Log in · Create account. Search. Anchorage Museum. Search. Log in; or; Create account · Cart 0 · Home · Alaska Native Art · Apparel · Books · Design · Jewelry · Home › Alaska Native Art › St. Lawrence Island Yupik ...

alaska - How many died during St. Lawrence Island 1878-1880 famine ...

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Aug 1, 2016 - C. L. Hooper, in command of the U.S. Revenue Steamer Corwin, stopped At. St. Lawrence to investigate reports of starvation of large numbers of Eskimos during the winter of 1878-79. Capt. Hooper has given a vivid description of the distressing conditions he found (Hooper, 1881). The St. Lawrence Island ...

Metal concentrations in native Yupik foodstuffs from ... - Scholars Archive

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by J Kricheff - ‎2009 - ‎Related articles
It has been accepted for inclusion in Geology Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholars Archive. For more information, please contact scholarsarchive@albany.edu. Recommended Citation. Kricheff, Judith, "Metal concentrations in native Yupik foodstuffs from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska" (2009).

Savoonga Village, St. Lawrence Island — CoastView travel app

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Mar 16, 2018 - Savoonga is a community in Alaska of under 700 people located on the north coast of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. In 1971, Savoonga became joint owner of St. Lawrence Island along with Gambell, the island's only other community. The local economy consists of subsistence hunting for walrus, ...

"Going to Market with a New Product: St. Lawrence Island, Alaska" by ...

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by WA Roberts - ‎2009
Jan 1, 2009 - St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, located in the Bering Sea, is actually closer to Russia than Alaska. There is very little economic activity on the island, and the native villages of Savoonga and Gambell are very interested in finding opportunities to generate much-needed cash and employment opportunities for ...

PCB report on St. Lawrence Island stirs controversy | Peninsula Clarion

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PCB report on St. Lawrence Island stirs controversy. Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2003 ... The state's missive drew a sharp rebuttal from the environmental group, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and the national PCB expert who participated in the study. ''The state is trying to dismiss the problem. That to me is totally ...

"Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Metabolic Diseases on St. Lawrence ...

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The Yupik people of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska rely on a diet that largely consists of bowhead whales, walruses, and seals, all of which are high in omega-3 fatty acids and are near the top of the Arctic food web. Humans occupy the top of the food web and so therefore accumulate the highest concentration of PCBs in their ...

[PDF]Differential response in chick survival to diet in least and crested auklets

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by AE Gall - ‎2006 - ‎Cited by 17 - ‎Related articles
Feb 16, 2006 - We studied breeding biology of least and crested auklets on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska during 2000 to 2002 to evaluate the relationship between variation in auklet reproductive parameters and variation in their diet, which presumably reflects changes in the zooplankton community of the northern Bering ...

ESKIMO CHRONOLOGY village site at Kukulik, St. Lawrence Island ...

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by FG Rainey - ‎1936 - ‎Related articles
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA. Communicated May 7, 1936. An analysis of the archaeological collections from an extensive Eskimo village site at Kukulik, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, has shown that six cultural horizons, marked by changes in material culture, are represented in a single stratified midden deposit. A "test cut" ...

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