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Coast Guard Searching for Man Near St. Matthew Island

By U.S. Coast Guard 17th District Alaska on Sep 28, 2018 At Sea, Featured

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard is searching for a man last seen aboard a fishing boat north of St. Matthew Island Thursday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak C-130 Hercules aircrew launched from Kotzebue and is searching for the man along with the crew of fishing vessels Clipper Epic, Frontier Spirit and Frontier Mariner. […]

The Loneliest Camp on Earth

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 7, 2015 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

One of the quietest places in Alaska was temporarily home to a few hardy people when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. An archaeologist has fleshed out what life might have been like during a winter on St. Matthew Island in the 1600s. In some ways, St. Matthew, more than 200 miles from the nearest […]