The Kodiak Archipelago in this gulf was the site of the first Russian colony in North America
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Kodiak Island - Wikipedia  Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island is the second ... Largest settlement, Kodiak ... Kodiak Island is mountainous and heavily forested in the north and east, but fairly...
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Kodiak Island | island, Alaska, United States | Britannica.com  Kodiak Island, island, southern Alaska, U.S. It lies in the Gulf of Alaska and is ... Shuyak, and a number of other nearby islands, it forms an archipelago that is an ... Glotov, a Russian fur trader who was the first nonnative Alaskan to visit the area. ... Grigory Shelekhov (Shelikof) established the first settlement in 1784 at Three...
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Free Flashcards about U.S GEOGRAPHY - StudyStack  THE KODIAK ARCHIPELAGO IN THIS GULF WAS THE SITE OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN COLONY IN NORTH AMERICA, GULF OF ALASKA. NORTH CAROLINA...
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Remains of Early Migrants Being Studied in Alaska - latimes  Sep 30, 1990 ... The remains left by some of the earliest migrants from Asia to Alaska and the remains of the first Russian colony in North America are ... Archeologists said Kodiak Island, jutting out of a volcano-formed archipelago in the Gulf of Alaska, ... Knecht's site, in the community of Chiniak on the east side of the...
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Free Flashcards about US Geography - StudyStack  This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of ... The Kodiak Archipelago in this gulf was the site of the first Russian colony in...
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The geography and geology of Alaska - USGS Publications ...  Nov 3, 1994 ... called southeastern Alaska, while the western leg is the shore line of ..... first Russian settlement in the archipelago, and subsequently for the site of their ...... monotony broken only by an occasional flat-topped hill the remnant of the lower ...... open forests of the interior and the treeless region of the barren...
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TRAVEL ALASKA  Dry Pixel  Mar 12, 2014 ... The first visitors to this harsh environment of the north are thought to ... linked Siberia and North America approximately 3000 years ago1. ... This is one example of the differences between Inupik and the ... Dances and festivals ... Peter the Great was Czar of Russia in 1724 when he sent a Danish explorer,...
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Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska - The AMIQ Institute  The cultural survival of the Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, is one of the most ... began to develop about 8,000 years ago in the Bering Sea and North Pacific region, ... Since the animals breed on land, it is relatively simple to round up and ..... of these groups would appear on the harvest field each summer, watching...
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First Americans lived on land bridge for thousands of years, genetics ...  Feb 28, 2014 ... The Bering Land Bridge, also known as central part of Beringia, is thought to ... cores drilled into the now submerged landscape, it seems that here and in some ... Global sea levels rose as the vast continental ice sheets melted, ... to the Indians who lived near the border between Alaska and Russia that they...
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Island History | Pribilof Islands  At a time when the sea otter ( Aleut word - chngatux ) ... occupation of northwestern America, lying north of latitude 55 (Black 2004, ... (Unangam Tunuu: residents of the Pribilof Islands) at St. George Island: 81 Aleut, 8 Russian, and 7 Creole. ... of the island of St. Lawrence and the southeast point of Cape Choukotski, to the...
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PBS - Harriman: History of Exploration  Thus, when European explorers came to Alaska in the eighteenth century, they ... In 1728, Vitus Bering, a Danish-born officer in the Russian Navy of Tsar Peter ... He came very close to the Alaskan coast, but bad weather prevented him from .... a seasoned naturalist and explorer, led the Smithsonian's first Arctic expedition.
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Kodiak Island Detailed Geography - Discover Kodiak - Kodiak Island ...  The Kodiak Island Archipelago is located in the Gulf of Alaska about 30 miles ... most near shore marine waters are designated as estuarine because of their ... Islands contain extensive tide flats, and most of the Tugidak Island mainland is...
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Aleutian Islands | archipelago, Pacific Ocean | Britannica.com  Dec 18, 2015 ... Chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the main ... feet [2,857 metres]), near the centre of Unimak Islandhave remained active. ... In 1741 the Russians sent the Dane Vitus Bering and the Russian Aleksey ... The oldest and largest permanent settlement is that of Unalaska (Dutch...
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Russian colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia  The Russian colonization of the Americas covers the period from 1732 to 1867, when the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the...
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Explorers of North America - EnchantedLearning.com  Bering sailed through what is now known as the Bering Strait, finding a sea route ... Bering and his crew spent winter of 1741 on this bare bit of land, where Bering and .... of the colony of New Spain, but eventually fell out of favor with the royals. .... who spotted the coast of North America in 985 or 986 when blown off course...
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The Vikings In America And Greenland - CMods  colonized Greenland, sailed to America a number of times, ventured down the Volga as ... The Vikings not only discovered North America, they also established at ... undisputably Viking settlement in Newfoundland and named the site "L'Anse aux ... Leif described his point of arrival in America, according to The Saga of the.
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First Americans Lived on Bering Land Bridge for Thousands of Years  Mar 4, 2014 ... But genetic evidence shows there is no direct ancestral link between ... Siberia, and yet there is no evidence they had reached Alaska or the rest of the New World either. ... which now lies underneath the waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas. ... Based on evidence from sediment cores drilled into the now...
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Russian America - Wikipedia  Russian America was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in the Americas from 1733 to 1867. Settlements spanned parts of what are now the US states of California, ... On some islands and parts of the Alaska Peninsula, groups of traders had .... Zealous overhunting had severely reduced the fur-bearing animal...
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The History of Kodiak, Alaska - ExploreNorth  Kodiak Island, "the emerald isle," is the largest island in Alaska, and is ... It is 252 air miles south of Anchorage, a one-hour flight, and is a 3-hour flight from Seattle ... 6,500 Sugpiaqs (Koniags) in the area and the Island was called "Kikhtak. ... By the time Alaska became a U.S. Territory in 1867, the Koniag region Eskimos had...
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Kodiak, Alaska - Wikipedia  Kodiak is one of seven communities and the main city on Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough ... The city has four public elementary schools, a middle and high school, as well as ... Bay (established in 1784) to a new site in Paul's Harbor (- , .... The most well-known of these is Kodiak Crab Festival.
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Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia  The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867 by a treaty ratified by the United States .... This name had earlier, in the Russian era, denoted the Alaska Peninsula, which the .... to the United States by the lease of the privilege of taking seals, in fact an amount in...