...home to Sand Point and neighboring Unga Island to the west is one of the oldest...Islands. The Apollo deposit on Unga Island produced 145,000 ounces of gold...23 drill holes were planned for Unga Island mostly surrounding Apollo Mountain...
UNGA ISLAND - If you want to stroll through the only forest in the Shumagin Islands...planted by people. But along a stretch of beach on the northwest corner of Unga Island, there's a grove that hasn't grown for millions of years. Wind and...
...Alaska Peninsula about 570 miles southwest of Anchorage. Sand Point is on Popof Island and looks across a channel to Unga Island. Humpbacks in the summer often are spotted by commercial fishermen putting down nets in more open water. Whales in...
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