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Nunivak (n  `nĭvăk), island, c.1,700 sq mi (4,400 sq km), off W Alaska, in the Bering Sea. It is the second largest island in the Bering Sea. Fogbound most of the year, Nunivak is covered with low vegetation and has a small Eskimo population engaged in hunting and fishing. Reindeer and musk oxen have been introduced as part of a national wildlife refuge there. The island was discovered in 1821 by Russian explorers. |
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Three decades later, the average extent of southeastern sea ice was just south of Nunivak Island. After a lecture tour in the United States in 1936, on the advice of Franz Boas he went to Alaska for ten months, where he pursued the questions that he had asked in West Africa, but now among traditional sculptors and painters on the island of Nunivak. |
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