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- Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical Institute
Every person in the village of York, west of Wales, died due to the flu In just one week, 72 of 80 people died in Brevig Mission (which is still a village) Many orphans moved to missions like the one at Pilgrim Springs, which itself became abandoned after those orphans grew up U S government officials forced the move of villagers several times
- The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical Institute
The temperature at Snag was unavailable; Canadians had abandoned the airstrip in 1967 × Photo: Meteorologist Jim Brader of the National Weather Service office in Fairbanks, Alaska on his way to Snag, Yukon Territory, Canada (Ned Rozell photo)
- Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska
Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska December 08, 2010 Ned Rozell On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens
- Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum - Geophysical Institute
Alaska has its own ghost ship Workers for the Hudson Bay Company abandoned the S S Baychimo just offshore of Wainwright 85 years ago Sea ice trapped the 230-foot cargo steamship during an early winter in October 1931 The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo
- Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer - Geophysical Institute
Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Institute of Arctic Biology, hiked the length of the island with field assistant Jim Whisenhant in 1957
- Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali
A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the surrounding swamplands, and loved warm weather and steamy rain showers The tree, a dawn redwood, died of unknown causes about 55 million years ago
- Bus 142 to embark on final journey - Geophysical Institute
Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and Preserve In 1992, 24-year-old Christopher McCandless discovered what he described as the “Magic Bus ”
- When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute
Six-thousand reindeer lived here on St Matthew Island in the Bering Sea in 1963 By the 1980s, zero reindeer remained
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