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Arctic port study highlights Nome, Port Clarence

...of Engineers officials looked at seven locations south of the Bering Strait including St. Paul, St. Lawrence and Nunivak islands and Bethel, Nome, Teller and Cape Darby, an uninhabited location between Iditarod Trail communities and Golovin...

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State
Fuel ship 190 miles away from iced-in Nome

...a Western Alaska community in winter.The Russian tanker came upon ice about a foot thick very early Friday near Nunivak Island, a large island in the eastern Bering Sea, the Coast Guard said. The tanker is following the Healy, the Coast...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-01-08/fuel-ship-190-miles-away-iced-nome
State
Dying musk oxen on Slope remain a mystery

...back in 1931, shipping about three dozen from Greenland to Fairbanks. Five years later, the animals were barged to Nunivak Island off the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast, where they thrive today. Some of those musk oxen were transplanted to Western...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070906/out_20060709004.shtml
Outdoors
UAF animal research station resumes tours

...similarities between the two. The station was set up on 75 acres in 1979 with 13 musk oxen flown to Fairbanks from Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. All the musk oxen at the farm stem from those original inhabitants. The caribou came from the...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071502/sta_research.shtml
News
WEIO merges sports, culture

...the crowd increased as Paulsen, a former Marine from Anchorage and a Cup'ik Eskimo whose mother comes from the Nunivak Island village of Mekoryuk, walked the roughly 200-foot course. During the event, the string began to slip on Paulsen's...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072104/spo_earlift.shtml
Sports
This Day in History

...auction for government-owned seal skins from the Pribilof Islands. In 1959, 100,000 pounds of reindeer meat from Nunivak Island was in transit to markets in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hawaii. George Byer was elected mayor of...

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This Day in History

...government-owned seal skins from the Pribilof Islands. In 1959, one hundred thousand pounds of reindeer meat from Nunivak Island was in transit to markets in New York City, Washington D.C., and Hawaii. In 1959, George Byer was elected mayor...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100605/sta_20051006011.shtml
News
This Day in History

...auction for government-owned seal skins from the Pribilof Islands. In 1959, 100,000 pounds of reindeer meat from Nunivak Island was in transit to markets in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hawaii. George Byer was elected mayor of...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100606/sta_20061006014.shtml
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Juneau Empire Story Archive

...floodgates opened. And not just around Juneau. The superintendent's name was also given to Mendenhall Cape on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea in 1906. Although Mendenhall died in 1924, the wheel of naming continued to spin. Four years...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060399/Loc_mendenhall.shtml
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...Himmelheber among the Eskimos of Nunivak Island. It was originally released in...worked here. He spent a winter on Nunivak Island and gathered the remainder of...shamans, and how Raven created Nunivak Island. The black and white photos that...

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