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Dutch Harbor Fisherman
April 27, 2018
The funding agency is looking for a strong local commitment to preserve the historic 19th century church, according to Gregory, who hopes the visiting philanthropists are warmly welcomed when they visit the Aleutian Islands community next week. That's where the Bishop's House bed and breakfast comesÃâà...
The Union of Grass Valley
April 27, 2018
After selling the Mint, he continued to sell antiques at the Antique Palace in Grass Valley. Don was a World War II veteran of the United States Coast Guard and served in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. He maintained his love of all things Alaska and visited five times over the years. Don was still working fullÃâà...
Yakima Herald-Republic
April 27, 2018
Orville L. Dihel passed away Saturday, April 21, 2018 in Ellensburg, Washington and is now singing with the angels! Orville was born in Rising City, Nebraska, the youngest of five children. The first thirteen years were spent farming on a large farm with his father and three brothers. This was during theÃâà...
Science Daily
April 25, 2018
Journal Reference: Gary Drew, John F. Piatt, Jeff Williams. Biological responses of Crested and Least auklets to volcanic destruction of nesting habitat in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The Auk, 2018; 135 (3): 477 DOI: 10.1642/AUK-17-180.1Ãâà...
Travel Weekly
April 24, 2018
Alaska Adventure Travel is offering new 2018 experiences that explore Alaska's Aleutian Islands. As a subsidiary of the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Community Development Association, Alaska Adventure Travel works closely with Aleutian-Pribilof communities and helps to sustain rural villages and fosterÃâà...
Earthquake Report
April 24, 2018
Moderate earthquake - Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands - April 23, 2018. Shares. Created April 24, 2018 Last update April 24, 2018 10:31 By Armand Vervaeck. Have you felt the shaking? If Yes, tell us by using the I FELT IT form behind the earthquake or at the bottom of this page. Using our EQ Report iOS or Android app wouldÃâà...
Must Read Alaska (blog)
April 22, 2018
The Aleutian Islands' role as the only part of North America to endure prolonged enemy occupation by Japan during World War II.” “Alaska has more veterans per capita than any other state in the country, and Alaska Native people serve the armed forces in higher proportions than any other demographic.
KTVA
April 21, 2018
Walker's order touches on the state's rich tradition of military history, much of it dating back to World War II. Those events include the Japanese occupation of the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. internment of some residents displaced from the Aleutians, black soldiers' role in building the Alaska-Canada HighwayÃâà...
Big Island Now
April 20, 2018
The State of Hawaii named April as Tsunami Awareness Month in the 1990s. On April 1, 1946 a tsunami from the Aleutian islands surprised the State. At the time, the Hawaiian Islands did not have a tsunami warning system. The death toll climbed to 159 people with many more injured. As a result, the USÃâà...
Maui Now
April 19, 2018
The State of Hawaii named April as Tsunami Awareness Month in the 1990s. On April 1, 1946 a tsunami from the Aleutian islands surprised the State. At the time, the Hawaiian Islands did not have a tsunami warning system. The death toll climbed to 159 people with many more injured. As a result, the USÃâà...
Newsroom America
April 19, 2018
Region: RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Geographic coordinates: 51.065N, 179.978E Magnitude: 4.0 Depth: 4 km Universal Time (UTC): 18 Apr 2018 17:24:46 Time near the Epicenter: 18 Apr 2018 08:24:46 Local standard time in your area: 18 Apr 2018 12:24:46. Location with respect to nearbyÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
April 17, 2018
“Surface vessel are unavailable at this time to carry troops to the Aleutians. This is an unpropitious moment for an all-out attack.” He added that merely throwing the Japanese off the Aleutian Islands would not end the matter. “We will continue attacking there heavily,” he said. “It has been the grandest trap toÃâà...
Earthquake Report
April 9, 2018
Have you felt the shaking? If Yes, tell us by using the I FELT IT form behind the earthquake or at the bottom of this page. Using our EQ Report iOS or Android app would even be easier and very informative (links in banner above this text). –. Most important Earthquake Data: Magnitude : 3. Local TimeÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 5, 2018
In fact, few Americans remember that Alaskan islands seized by Japanese forces remain one of the only case in which enemy forces successfully occupied U.S. territory during the twentieth century. The thirteen-month battle over the Aleutian Islands yielded numerous air and sea skirmishes fought overÃâà...
Martinsville Bulletin
April 3, 2018
Many of these are along the Aleutian Islands, the long tail of islands coming off the left side of the state. The Aleutian Islands were created by volcanoes found along the edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geologically active area home to many volcanoes around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. 57 of Alaska'sÃâà...
Roanoke Times
April 1, 2018
He served with the United States Navy during World War II on Adak in the Aleutian Islands. The event of Vatican Council 11 (1962-65) was a catalyst for Bob and fueled his peace and justice activism for the rest of his life. He was inspired, in 1990 to go to the impoverished country of Haiti, which he alwaysÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 1, 2018
Johnson expects a preliminary report to be filed by next week. Pilot Point, with a population of 76, and King Salmon, with a population of 300, is on the eastern end of the Alaska Peninsula, the body of land that juts out from mainland Alaska toward the Aleutian Islands. The pilot attempted a landing at PilotÃâà...
Bristol Bay Times
March 31, 2018
Thunderstorms are rare in the Aleutian Islands, so when sensors detect lightning, it most likely means there's an ongoing eruption, Haney said. Bogoslof started erupting in December 2016 and erupted more than 60 times through August 2017. Many of the eruptions produced towering clouds of ash moreÃâà...
Kamloops This Week
March 27, 2018
Their habitat ranges throughout the Pacific Ocean from California to Alaska and extends west to the Aleutian Islands and Japan. They live in intertidal zones to depths of more than 100 metres and spend most of their lives located in or nearby their den. The nocturnal animals leave sporadically to hunt and,Ãâà...
Sentinel & Enterprise
March 27, 2018
As a member of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division during World War II Goguen was sent to the Aleutian Islands near the Alaskan peninsula expecting to encounter Japanese soldiers, only to learn their adversaries had fled days before they touched down. Goguen then went to Colorado to train fellowÃâà...
Kenai Peninsula Online
March 27, 2018
That trend held true across Alaska with the exception of the northern part of the panhandle, the Kodiak Archipelago and the western Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. This winter also saw record low sea ice in the Chukchi and Bering seas. New Year's arrived before ice extent reached 95 percentÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 27, 2018
The motor vessel Challenge Prelude is a 587-foot tanker. (Courtesy of Hans Rosenkranz/MarineTraffic.com)Update. Update: The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a man who reportedly fell overboard from an oil tanker traveling past the Aleutian Islands. Petty Officer Lauren Dean says airÃâà...
Bristol Bay Times
March 24, 2018
She said her sea-kayak-expert partner Justine Curgenven advised that the little sails were a wise idea to safely navigate the fast moving waters of the passes between the Aleutian Islands. In summer, 2014, the "relative metropolis of Dutch Harbor was a bit of a shock" after paddling from Adak with stops inÃâà...
National Geographic
March 19, 2018
The crackling sound was identified using microphones set up to detect eruptions coming from Bogoslof volcano in Alaska's southwestern Aleutian Islands. Over an eight-month period, the microphones picked up a mixture of eruption booms and lightning cracks. Only by cross checking a map of volcanicÃâà...
SitNews
March 15, 2018
(SitNews) - Cornell University scientists are beginning to unravel the complicated connections between viruses, the environment and wasting diseases among sea stars in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. As ocean temperatures rise and oceanic diseases proliferate, species like sea stars struggle toÃâà...
The Guardian
March 15, 2018
The thunderclaps were created by lightning in the towering plumes of ash that rose from the Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutian islands. The booms were picked up by microphones on another island some 40 miles away. The sound of volcanic thunder has never been captured before, chiefly because it is soÃâà...
Juneau Empire
March 14, 2018
The North Pacific Research Board, whose mission is to build a “clear understanding of the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands, and Chukchi/Beaufort Seas,” is looking for a 20th member. The seat represents the interests of the fishing industry and becomes available on July 21, according to anÃâà...
Newsweek
March 14, 2018
The recording was made possible thanks to a spree of activity last year at Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutian Islands, in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. Over the course of nine months, the volcano erupted 64 separate times. Long before the eruptions began, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey hadÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 2, 2018
An active volcano in the Aleutian Islands erupted early Friday morning and sent a small ash cloud about 3 miles into the atmosphere, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Sensors on Mount Cleveland volcano, on Chuginadak Island, recorded a small explosion, and an ash cloud was observedÃâà...
VolcanoDiscovery
March 2, 2018
A small explosion was detected yesterday at 14:57 UTC (05:57 AKST) on seismic and infrasound sensors. A small ash plume was observed heading ENE at an altitude of about 15,000 ft (5 km). The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) raised the aviation alert level of the volcano to Orange. "Explosions fromÃâà...
KDLG
February 26, 2018
KUCB: Scientists found an enriched uranium particle over the Aleutian Islands and don't know where it came from. In 20 years of aerial surveys, it's the first time researchers have detected a particle like this. It's not naturally occurring uranium – it's the kind that might be found in nuclear bombs or fuel.
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 23, 2018
Scientists found an enriched uranium particle over the Aleutian Islands and don't know where it came from. In 20 years of aerial surveys, it's the first time researchers have detected a particle like this. It's not naturally occurring uranium – it's the kind that might be found in nuclear bombs or fuel. Listen now.
Pacific Standard
February 19, 2018
One trend he has tracked is the decline of red-faced cormorants, which used to number more than 70,000 in the westernmost Aleutian islands but are now down to a few hundred. There are multiple suspected causes for the fall in population of red-faced cormorants and other seabird declines, includingÃâà...
Cowboys and Indians
December 31, 1999
Pat Harvie's spread in the Aleutian Islands has lush grasslands and no natural predators, but that doesn't mean ranching in the Cradle of Storms is easy. America's westernmost ranch does not lie along the slopes of a remote mountain range, nor under a bone-bleaching desert sun, nor on a tropical beach.
Earthquake Report
December 31, 1999
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