Pushing north along the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Bering discovered
St. Lawrence Island and, continuing north along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula, reached his farthest north latitude of 67[degrees]24' N in the Chukchi Sea.
In the North Pacific Ocean, individuals breed on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait; additional nesting Dovekies are thought to occur on King Island,
St. Lawrence Island, St.
Remediation work at the Northeast Cape Air Force station FUDS on
St. Lawrence Island continues with an $8 million restoration project for the excavation of PCB and petroleum-contaminated soil.
The chapters or sections include Inupiaq,
St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Yup'ik, Unangax, Sugpiaq, Athabascan, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian.
Similarly, Aron Crowell and Estelle Oozevaseuk's collaborative ethnography of Yupik narrative is intriguing for showing the way in which narrative seeks to teach morals about appropriate conduct rather than attempting to give an accurate history of the
St. Lawrence Island epidemic of 1878-1880.
It also stretches 600 miles from Minto in the east to Gambell on
St. Lawrence Island in the west.
The first cruise, in mid- to late March, was near
St. Lawrence Island, a large, remote island in the north Bering Sea where scientists studied walrus and their food supply and collected seawater, sediment, and biological specimens.
For instance, Bobby Ungwiluk, a teen from
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, is spreading the word about the threats of global warming (see p.
She also visited the people of Gambell, a Yupik Eskimo village on
St. Lawrence Island. In our special report (pp.
The product of a joint four-year effort by subsistence hunters from two Yupik communities on
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and northern scholars researching climate change, the book illustrates how the two groups can help each other by sharing their very different knowledge and perspectives.
Longtime health aide Annie Alowa of
St. Lawrence Island became worried when she saw what she considered a troubling trend of cancer cases, birth defects and premature births.