Jabbertown is a historical shore whaling station on the Chukchi Sea coast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Kotzebue and 2.5 miles (4 km) southeast of Point Hope, also known as Tigara, Alaska. The whaling station was shown on a chart in 1898, and the name is...
Nunam Iqua is a small community on Sheldon Point, located on the left bank of Kwemeluk Pass in the Yukon River delta, about 157 miles (253 km) northwest of Bethel and 12.4 miles (20 km) south-southwest of Alakanuk, Alaska. Nunam Iqua is a Yup’ik name meaning...
Kustatan is a historical Dena’ina community on the south shore of the West Foreland in Cook Inlet, about 71 miles (115 km) southwest of Anchorage and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Kenai, Alaska. The last syllable “tan” in the name means point or...
Graveyard Point was a steamboat landing and telegraph station at the mouth of the Shames River on the Skeena River, 42 miles (68 km) upstream from Port Essington, about 58 miles (94 km) east of Prince Rupert and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Terrace, British Columbia....
Nikolski is a community located on Nikolski Bay, on the north coast and at the southwest end of Umnak Island, one of the Fox Islands in the Eastern Aleutian Islands, about 910 miles (1,468 km) southwest of Anchorage and 116 miles (187 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
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