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| | Kamchatka: Bering Island |
 | | By 1754, only 13 years after the discovery of Bering Island, a czarist envoy wrote that sea cows were being exterminated at such a rate that they would soon be eradicated. | | | He was only naturalist to have witnessed Bering Island's wildlife in its natural state and to have examined and described the Steller's sea cow before it became extinct. | | | By 1754, only 13 years after the discovery of Bering Island, the sea otter population there had been nearly wiped out. |
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http://www.pbs.org/edens/kamchatka/bering.html
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| | Nordic Explorer: VitusBering |
| | The results of Bering's two expeditions were to some degree suppressed in Russia of that time; after the death of Tsar Peter the open relationship with the West gave way to a more reserved attitude. | | | The interest felt for Bering has led to some diggings, both by amateurs and professionals, with a view to find traces left by himself and by his companions. | | | Back in St. Petersburg Bering's findings met with scepticism which made him began planning a new Kamchatka expedition forthwith. |
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http://www.3rd1000.com/history3/explorers/bering.htm
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| | Bering Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This island is also un-commonly known as the "Floating Island" simply because it "floats" on the International Timeline. | | | Bering Island (Russian: Ostrov Beringa) is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea (55°0′ N 166°15′ E). | | | The island is foggy and is prone to earthquakes. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Island
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| | Pribilof Islands - Piscivorous Seabirds |
| | Feeding ecology of seabirds of the eastern Bering Sea. | | | Pelagic distribution of marine birds in the eastern Bering Sea. | | | Breeding distribution and reproductive biology of eastern Bering Sea marine birds. |
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http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/sebscc/pribs_database/page_bird.html
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| | SEA and STRAIT BERING ISLAND - LoveToKnow Article on SEA and STRAIT BERING ISLAND |
| | The island (also called Avatcha), which was the scene of his death, lies in the southwestern part of the sea, off the coast of Kamchatka, being one of the Commander or Komandor group, belonging to Russia. | | | See: SEA and STRAIT BERING ISLAND at LoveToKnow. | | | The islands are treeless, and the climate is severe, but there is a population of about 650. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BE/BERING_ISLAND_SEA_and_STRAIT.htm
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| | Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island : Nature |
| | Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island | | | As part of a large radiocarbon dating project of Alaskan mammoth fossils, I addressed this question by including mammoth specimens from Bering Sea islands known to have formed during the end-Pleistocene sea transgression | | | Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island : Nature |
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http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature02612
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| | Today in History: October 25 |
| | Having learned they were not, Bering undertook a second exploration, the Great Northern Expedition, with the secret purpose of securing a Russian foothold on the North American continent. | | | Months later, survivors of Bering's ship came ashore in Siberia and their journals revealed an extraordinary tale. | | | Soon the two were separated by a storm at sea. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct25.html
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| | Mammoths stranded on Bering Sea island delayed extinction |
| | St. Paul, one of the five islands in the Bering Sea Pribilofs, was home to mammoths that survived the extinctions that wiped out mainland and other Bering Sea island mammoth populations. | | | Using accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) radiocarbon dating, bathymetric (water depth) plots, and sea transgression rates from the Bering Sea, Guthrie found that the mammoths became stranded on the Pribilofs about 13,000 years ago during the Holocene sea level rise after the last glacial maximum. | | | I believe the same thing happened on Islands off of the coast of California. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1155606/posts
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| | Bering Sea |
| | Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy - Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy: see under Bering Sea. | | | Billions Lost to Poaching by Organized Crime in Bering Sea WWF-TRAFFIC Study Finds. | | | (Bering Sea fishery rights)(includes related articles on wasteful fishing methods and consumer awareness) (Mother Jones) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0807170.html
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| | Kamchatka: Bering Island |
| | Several of the old Aleuts from Bering Island saw amidst the group of Americans people who looked like themselves. | | | The Russian-American Company (RAC) posted parties of Russian hunters on Bering and Copper Islands to procure the fur of sea lions and sea otters. | | | At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the population of the islands embraced Christianity. |
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http://www.pbs.org/edens/kamchatka/bering_2.html
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| | Walrus - Odobenus rosmarus divergens - on Bering Sea island | | | Walrus - Odobenus rosmarus divergens - swimming in the ice floes in the Bering Sea |
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http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/animals/anind1.htm
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| | NMNH - Repatriation Office - Reports - Alaska - St. Lawrence Island |
| | Additionally, independent claims from the IRA Council presidents at Gambell and Savoonga were received by NMNH in February of 1997. | | | This report addresses the returns of skeletal remains requested by the villages of Gambell and Savoonga only. | | | These remains were deaccessioned for repatriation on May 15, 1997. |
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http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/repatriation/reports/regional/alaska/st_lawernce_island.htm
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| | IngentaConnect Paleomagnetism and tectonics of Karaginsky Island, Bering Sea |
| | Paleomagnetism and tectonics of Karaginsky Island, Bering Sea | | | IngentaConnect Paleomagnetism and tectonics of Karaginsky Island, Bering Sea | | | This agrees with the northwest vergence of the structure of Karaginsky Island. |
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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/iar/1999/00000008/00000003/art00243
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| | Bering Climate and Ecosystem - Information resources |
| | Sights and Sounds of the Bering Sea from National Geographic | | | Seasons and Cycles of the Bering Sea from NASA/GSFC | | | Visible Earth - Images of the Bering Sea from NASA |
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http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov/links-info.html
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| | Kittiwake Contrast: Arctic Science Journeys Radio |
| | Although both islands are in the Bering Sea, that's about all the two have in common. | | | Vernon Byrd, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is among a cadre of scientists trying to find out why seabirds are doing well in one place but not the other. | | | STORY: Saint George Island is a 12-mile-long promontory in the heart of Alaska's Bering Sea, some 300 miles north of the Aleutian Island chain. |
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http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/NewsMedia/01ASJ/08.03.01kittiwake.html
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| | ABC News: Whalers Missing in Frigid Bering Sea |
| | Three people were pulled out of the icy water about eight miles off the remote Bering Sea Island, but three were reported missing, a 38-year-old man, an 11-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl. | | | ABC News: Whalers Missing in Frigid Bering Sea | | | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=708593
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| | Bering Island |
| | That is, these islands are part of an adjacent continent and arelocated on the continental shelf of that continent. | | | The Kerguelen Islands andsome of the Seychelles are also examples. | | | 2) " Island" -- in the term Bering Island |
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http://www.daikaiju.com/edge/20257-bering%20island.html
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| | Sea Otters in the North Pacific Ocean |
| | Bering Island was recolonized by sea otters from nearby Medny Island about 1970. | | | Annual skiff surveys were conducted at Bering Island from 1979 to 1993 (except 1990; Burdin et al. | | | Current status of the sea otter population at Bering Island, Commander Islands, Russia. |
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http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/noframe/s043.htm
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| | Georg Wilhelm Steller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Steller was appointed as naturalist on Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, to chart the Siberian coast of the Arctic Ocean and search an eastern passage to North America. | | | On the return journey the expedition was shipwrecked on what later became known as Bering Island. | | | During this time Steller wrote De Bestiis Marinus, describing the fauna of the island, including the Northern Fur Seal, the Sea Otter, Steller's (or Northern) Sea Lion, Steller's Sea Cow, Steller's Eider and Spectacled Cormorant. |
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http://www.bonneylake.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Georg_Wilhelm_Steller
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| | Aleut Research Project |
| | The DNA samples from the Aleuts of Bering Island are currently being analyzed, and preliminary results show that this recently established population does not contain any haplotype A mtDNAs, reflecting the unique history of this island population. | | | This chronology is consistent with archaeological evidence for the settlement of the Aleutian Islands. | | | The results of a collaborative study done by Professors Dennis O'Rourke and Geoff Hayes on the DNA of ancient Aleutian Island individuals show that their mitochondrial DNA is indistinguishable from that of the living Aleuts. |
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http://www.ku.edu/~lba/Aleut_Results.htm
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| | A Second Record of the Palearctic Red-throated Pipit from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea |
| | This specimen has remained un- studied until now and proves to be a second Red4hroated Pipit in the identical fresh "basic" (winter) plumage which Friedmann described for the previous specimen. | | | Single specimens have also been collected at St. | | | In 1938, Silook sent another pipit from St. Lawrence Island to the United States National Museum. |
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http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v065n05/p0447-p0447.html
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| | Dog bed, Bering Island, Russia, 2002 photo - Phil Douglis photos at pbase.com |
| | Bering Island, adrift in the vast Bering Sea, is one of the most remote islands on earth. | | | BZ -- if you were out there on Bering Island with us, you would have been surprised to learn that this bed of steel was not as entirely unforgiving as I said it was. | | | Thanks, Cecilia, for offering these valuable comments -- they come by way of a Malaysian designer to an American photographer about a Russian dog on a Siberian island. |
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http://www.pbase.com/image/20740882
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| | Alaska Office of Economic Development |
| | The expedition returns to Russia with sea otter pelts, but Bering himself dies on what is now known as Bering Island off the Kamchatka Peninsula. | | | Glotov lands at Unalaska in the Aleutian Island chain, and in 1763 on Kodiak Island. | | | Gerasim Pribilof discovers fur seal rookeries on Bering Sea islands now named for him. |
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http://www.dced.state.ak.us/oed/student_info/learn/russianheritage.htm
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| | Bering, Vitus -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Born in 1681 in Horsens, Denmark, Vitus Bering was sent by Peter the Great on an expedition in 1728 to see if the continents of Asia and America were connected. | | | On his second trip, in 1741, Bering visited the Alaskan mainland and established the original Russian claim to the region. | | | In this channel are Little Diomede Island, which belongs to the United States, and Big Diomede Island, which belongs to Russia. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9357080?tocId=9357080
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| | USNews.com: Vitus Bering showed Russia its greatness (2/23/04) |
| | Peter wanted to map his vast lands to the east and, if possible, extend them into the New World. | | | In 1991, 250 years after his death, a group of Danish and Russian scientists traveled to Bering Island and exhumed his remains. | | | Two years after his return, Bering was appointed leader of a second great expedition and instructed to sail to America. |
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040223/23bering.htm
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| | Voyage through the Aleutians - Part 3 |
| | Whilst at anchor off Bering Island awaiting processing by Russian immigration officials, we were able to watch good numbers of Red-legged Kittiwakes, as well as Pelagic and Red-faced Cormorants passing over the ship. | | | Although we could see small numbers of cormorants nesting on the sandy cliffs of the island, it was unclear where the Kittiwakes were actually nesting. | | | The larger of the two main islands of the Komandorski (Commander) Island Group, Bering Island was 'discovered' in 1741 when Bering's Expedition was marooned on the island for more than nine months after the loss of their ship the St Peter. |
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http://www.oceanwanderers.com/Aleut.3.html
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| | Nunivak on Encyclopedia.com |
| | REINDEER MELT AWAY WITH ICE ISLAND HERD IS REDUCED BY 2,500, AND NOBODY CAN SAY WITH CERTAINTY WHAT BECAME OF ANIMALS.(News/National/International) | | | Reindeer and musk oxen have been introduced as part of a national wildlife refuge there. | | | It is the second largest island in the Bering Sea. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/Nunivak.asp
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| | Native Human Remains Returned To Bering Sea Island Home |
| | Native Human Remains Returned To Bering Sea Island Home | | | Fairbanks, Alaska - Representatives from the Siberian Yup'ik villages of Gambell and Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea were in Fairbanks recently to pack and return the remains of 386 of their ancestors for reburial. | | | Archaeologists like Geist have focused on St. Lawrence Island because there are cultural connections on both sides of the Bering Strait and the island is likely to have been part of a prehistoric migration route between Asia and North America. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1996-10/UoAF-NHRR-171096.php
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| | VITUS by Asbjorn Lonvig. To a municipality. |
| | archeologists was sent to Bering Island to find | | | the graves of Vitus Bering and 5 of his men. | | | And in 1992 Vitus and the 5 seamen were reburied on Bering Island. |
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| | Vitus Bering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bering became too ill to command his ship, which was at last driven to refuge on an uninhabited island in the Commander Islands group (Komandorskiye Ostrova) in the southwest Bering Sea, where Bering himself and 28 men of his company died. | | | Bering was soon forced by adverse conditions to return, and he discovered some of the Aleutian Islands on his way back. | | | One of the sailors died and was buried on one of these islands, and the group was named after him (as the Shumagin Islands). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus_Bering
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| | Bering Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is commonly referred to as the "Bering land bridge" and is believed to be the first entry of humans into the Americas. | | | The Bering Sea (http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov/) is one of the world's major fisheries, and fisheries from Alaskan waters represents half of the landed U.S. catch of fish and shellfish. | | | The Bering Sea or Imarpik Sea is a body of water in the far northern Pacific Ocean covering over two million square kilometres. |
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http://www.bexley.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Bering_Sea
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bering Island |
| | Aleutian Islands, Bering Island, Commander Islands, Pribilof Islands, Unalaska, Unimak | | | Search for books about your topic, "Bering Island" | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bering Island |
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http://encarta.msn.com/Bering_Island.html
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| | Manatee FAQ: Related Sirenians |
| | Sadly, Steller and his crew were also pretty much responsible for the extinction of the Steller’s sea cow. | | | The survivors of the Saint Peter told stories of the sea cows on Bering Island after their return to Russia, and the Steller's sea cow was hunted to extinction within 27 years of its discovery. | | | Steller spent the winter of 1741 on Bering Island with other survivors of the wreck of the Russian ship, the "Saint Peter." While there, he busied himself by collecting and recording detailed observations of the plants, animals and minerals he found on the island. |
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http://www.savethemanatee.org/faqsirenians.htm
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| | Most of the Aleuts inhabiting Bering Island came from Atka Island, and those who lived on Mednyi Island originated from Attu Island. | | | It is the synthesis of the ancient culture of the Aleutian Islands and the culture of the Russian colonists and Creole population of Russian America. | | | The Nikolskoye village (Bering Island, founded in 1826) and Preobrazhenskoye village (Mednyi Island) are the largest settlements on the Commander Islands. |
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| | Vitus Bering - People of Alaska |
| | His ship became wrecked on a desolate island (later named for him), and Bering died on the island in December of 1741. | | | No copyright is claimed on non-original or licensed material. | | | In those days, much of the world was uncharted, and it was still not known whether Asia and America were connected or separate land masses. |
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http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ak_vjb.htm
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| | Shelter was provided in the gullies of the watercourses near the shore, and on the 8th of December Bering died.* The survivors sustained life on the flesh of the marine animals which were found on the island.. | | | Bering, from age and disease, had become totally incompetent, looking upon every one as his enemy. | | | The furs and skins which had been brought back by the sailors of Bering's company caused various expeditions to be fitted out in Kamchatka by the Russians resident there, in the hope of obtaining more by barter with the natives or by hunting. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/gc/mtfgc/12473/3360301.txt
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| | Woody plants are represented by birch, Siberian dwarf-pine and aspen dwarf woods. | | | There is no permanent human population on the island except for the staff of the meteorological station. | | | Large concentrations of waterbirds occur in the estuaries.Hydrological/Physical notes: Karaginsky Island is built up from Cretaceous and Neogene rocks. |
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http://www.wetlands.org/RDB/Ramsar_Dir/RussianFed/RU030D02.doc
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| | Audubon Nature Odysseys |
| | The mighty Anadyr River flows to the Bering Sea in this land of tundra and permafrost. | | | Bering’s name remains emblazoned in history—the Bering Sea and the Bering Strait being only a few reminders of his remarkable 18th-century exploration. | | | Walrus frequent the area, and we may be lucky to view a haul-out in the Arakamchechen Archipelago. |
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http://www.audubon.org/market/no/trips/russia/bear2005.html
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| | Our Beautiful World: Sealife of Kamchatka |
| | The grouping consists of two large islands, Bering Island and Medny (Copper) Island, | | | By 1768 for 27 years it had been completely exterminated. | | | Many sea beavers or sea otters lived there. |
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| | Aleut |
| | Aleut is spoken from the Alaska Peninsula through Umnak Island and on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands, on the Pribilof Islands north of the Aleutians, and on Bering Island. | | | A third dialect, Attu, now extinct in Alaska, survives on Bering Island (one of the Komandor Islands) in a creolized form that incorporates Russian verbal inflections. |
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http://www.flw.com/languages/aleut.htm
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| | King Island (Bering Strait) |
| | This kayak is of the King Island type. | | | These kayaks were designed to be used in the stormy waters of Bering Strait and were used for long-distance travel. | | | Its strength was such that the kayak and kayaker could be launched from a rocky overhang by two strong men. |
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http://www.arctickayaks.com/Plans/PlansBeringSeaRTW-1.htm
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| | Currents carry many dead things to Punuk Island making it the graveyard of the Bering Sea. |
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| | St. Paul Island - Bibliography |
| | William P. Rauch who kindly gave him specimens he had collected on St. Paul Island, the larger northwestern member of the seal islands, or the Pribilofs, where the fur seals are protected by the United States. | | | Paul lies 200 miles north-northwest from Unalaska Island in the Bering Sea, and off the line of the Aleutian Islands." | | | Paul Island -- View the plain text version of these results. |
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http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcbib.php?volcname=St.+Paul+Island
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| | You'll also see some of the area's historical significance with visits to Kiska Island, home of a large Japanese naval base during World War II; Attu Island, where the only WWII battle that took place on North American soil occurred; and Bering Island, the final resting place of Commander Vitus Bering. | | | Lawrence Island -- famous among birders for its Asiatic “strays” -- is located in the Bering Sea over 230 miles west of Nome. | | | At Chagulak Island, the sea and sky are thick with a colony of nearly one million fulmar birds, which nest among the steep cliffs that rise above the shoreline. |
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http://www.expeditioncruises.com/.docs/ship_id/10006/tour_id/10029/pg/ships.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Related Items - Island |
| | Hawaii, only island state in U.S. Long Island, largest island in continental U.S. Baffin Island, largest island in Canada | | | Galápagos Islands, famous in Darwin’s work on evolution | | | islands situated in bays, channels, gulfs, sounds, or straits |
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http://encarta.msn.com/related_761572562_33.4.8/Bering_Island.html
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| | Chemical Spill in Bering Sea Threatens Protected Russian Island |
| | The Commander Islands, which include Bering Island, received the designation of international biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in spring 2003. | | | MOSCOW, August 14, 2003 – A damaged container is leaking chemicals used in plastic production off the coast of Bering Island in the Bering Sea. | | | The chemicals began leaking from the container earlier this week through a crack caused by either residents' attempts to remove it or heavy waves that threw the container into coastal rocks. |
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http://www.earthvision.net/ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=25497
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| | TRENDS: ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE |
| | The period of record at Bering Island is too short to identify any long-term trends in atmospheric CO concentrations; however, the yearly mean atmospheric CO concentration at Bering Island rose from approximately 346 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1986 to 362.6 ppmv in 1993. | | | Measurements from this station are considered indicative of maritime air masses. |
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http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/main-bi.htm
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