In particular, clusters of sightings occurred north of
Unimak Island in March of 1985 and north of Unalaska Island (east of Unimak Pass) in June that same year (Appendix 1).
WHEREAS, the Great Alaskan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964 was the second largest (9.2 megathrust) in the world and devastated several Alaskan communities and killed 124 people in Alaska, California, and Oregon; and WHEREAS, the 1946 Aleutian Tsunami killed 159 people in Hawaii, five in Alaska, and one in California, and generated a 100-foot tsunami that destroyed the lighthouse at the Scotch Cap Coast Guard Station on
Unimak Island; and WHEREAS, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, to issue tsunami warnings, advisories and watches for the United States and Canada; and
The Aleutians stretch from
Unimak Island approximately 1600 km west to Attu Island (Fig.
ALASKA
Unimak Island, part of Alaska, is also at 55 degrees North and as different to Newcastle as chalk is to cheese.
On April 8 in Anchorage at the Alaska Zoo Gateway Hall, the topic is Killer Whale Predation on Gray Whales in the
Unimak Island Region.
Also, an annual aggregation of 80-100 transient whales has been reported in the
Unimak Island region of the eastern Aleutian Islands in May and June (Matkin et al., 2007; Barrett-Lennard et al., 2011), and more than 300 transients use the coastal waters of a broader region of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands (Durban et al., 2010).
From
Unimak Island east along the Alaska Peninsula to Ugashik Bay, the 1941 Bristol Bay survey was divided into two areas--in-shore and offshore.
So it was a dream come true when one of the few limited-entry brown bear tags issued for
Unimak Island turned up in the mailbox.
False Pass, located on the eastern side of
Unimak Island on Isanotski Strait in the Aleutian Islands, 646 air miles southwest of Anchorage, is an important refueling stop for Gulf of Alaska, Bristol Bay, and Bering Sea fishing fleets.
Matthew Island from Big Lake and the Glory of Russia Cape; and (3) Aleutian Islands area, 19 and 93 km south of
Unimak Island and 370 km south of Agattu Island.
Shubnikov and Lisovenko (1964) suggested that some northern rock sole migrate from
Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands to areas northeast of the Pribilof Islands between April and July, covering a distance of more than 500 km.
Notably not closed to bottom trawling are state waters in the vicinity of "cod alley" to the north of
Unimak Island and all of the central and western Aleutian Islands outside of Steller sea lion protection areas.