St. Lawrence Island

Derrick's mother said they were out there trying to help feed people in the community.

The family lives in Savoonga, a village of about 800 people on St. Lawrence Island.

Mom called him, "My survivor.

His story's amazing, and he was never afraid the whole time." Wow.

But Captain Hooper had also been directed to make all possible inquiries for the missing whalers and the Jeannette.

He returned with no tidings of the lost, but with reports of starvation and death among the Eskimos of St. Lawrence Island on account of an uncommonly severe and stormy winter in the Arctic regions.

He entertained no hope for the lost whalers, but thought DeLong and his party might be safe.

A general demand for relief expeditions now arose.

The highest of the peaks seems to be perhaps four thousand feet above the sea.

I hope I may yet have the chance to ascend them.

On the morning of the twenty-eighth, we came to anchor near an Eskimo village at the northwest end of St. Lawrence Island.

It was blowing and snowing at the time, and the poor storm-beaten row of huts seemed inexpressibly dreary through the drift.

Lawrence Island.

And if you look on the map, St. Lawrence Island sits at Gamble, which is the village we were at, sits 35 miles off of the coast of Siberia.

So we could see Russia, but we could not see the mainland U.S.

So that first year was incredible.

When I said culture, I was like, this culture has been, has existed for, I mean, I guess thousands of

years.

On St. Lawrence Island, at least.

And it's

The captain thought it dangerous as well as delaying to stop at Dutch Harbor, so we gave it up with disappointment.

After beating for several hours, we are now well on our way straight northward to St. Lawrence Island.

There is no ice in sight, but we can smell it distinctly.

As we went through the pass, it was raining, and we could see, but indistinctly, the precipitous shores.

Gold Hunting in Alaska by Joseph Grinnell.

June one.

Yesterday, the fog cleared and disclosed to us the snowy peaks of the Siberian coast far to the northwest, and in front to the north of us, the long coastline of St. Lawrence Island.

We headed up for the west end of the island, intending to pass up the channel between it and the Siberian coast.

But Captain Hooper had also been directed to make all possible inquiries for the missing whalers and the Jeannette.

He returned with no tidings of the lost, but with reports of starvation and death among the Eskimos of St. Lawrence Island on account of an uncommonly severe and stormy winter in the Arctic regions.

He entertained no hope for the lost whalers, but thought DeLong and his party might be safe.

A general demand for relief expeditions now arose.

The highest of the peaks seems to be perhaps four thousand feet above the sea.

I hope I may yet have the chance to ascend them.

On the morning of the twenty-eighth we came to anchor near an Esquimau village at the northwest end of St. Lawrence Island.

It was blowing and snowing at the time, and the poor storm-beaten row of huts seemed inexpressibly dreary through the drift.

According to reports, a 15-year-old boy was rescued after surviving nearly three days stranded on an overturned boat in the freezing Bering Sea.

The Coast Guard located the teen kneeling on the vessel near Alaska St. Lawrence Island and brought him to safety.

He was suffering from hypothermia symptoms but survived the ordeal.

The teen was the only survivor.

Not only is that part of the Pacific Ocean extremely remote, it's also extremely cold.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old boy set out from Savunga, a city on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, which is only a few dozen kilometers east of Russia.

He left on a small skiff with his brother and cousin, both in their 30s.

They planned to catch some halibut.

His cousin and brother had already drowned.

Adam White is the captain of the Northwest Explorer.

We reached him on board the vessel in the Bering Sea, roughly 65 kilometers from St. Lawrence Island.

Adam, I'm sure all of our listeners are wondering, how is this 15-year-old doing today?

A 15-year-old boy survived for roughly two days on top of a capsized fishing skiff in the frigid Bering Sea.

Derek Parker Arnaanga was fishing near St. Lawrence Island with his older brother and cousin when their boat capsized.

His mother says Derek prayed while he waited for someone to find him.

Eventually, a Coast Guard aircraft spotted him, and the crew of a nearby fishing vessel pulled him to safety.