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The Demise of Scotch Cap Lighthouse

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 16, 2015 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

In spring of 1946, five men stationed at the Scotch Cap lighthouse had reasons to be happy. World War II was over. They had survived. Their lonely Coast Guard assignment on Unimak Island would be over in a few months. But the lighthouse tenders would never return to their homes in the Lower 48. In […]

1946 Tsunami Survivor Shares her Story

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 5, 2015 Featured, General News

On April 1, 1946, the sea floor ruptured just south of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Seawater displaced by the giant earthquake sent a 100-foot wave into the Scotch Cape lighthouse on Unimak, destroying the concrete structure and killing the five men inside. They never knew what hit them in the 2 a.m. darkness. […]

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