Unalaska

Leaving these broader areas to those having special reasons and ample financial resources for surmounting the great obstacles they offer, attention is asked to a limited field of exploration, which for compactness, accessibility, economy of effort and expense, and probable richness of returns, stands unrivaled today within our borders.

The route from Sitka to Unalaska has been one of continuous travel by seagoing vessels for many years.

While making this journey, hundreds of voyagers have looked on and exclaimed over the majestic beauty of Mount Chishaldin.

But so far as known, no white man's foot has yet trod the higher slopes of this splendid cone, which rears its snow-clad crest nearly 9,000 feet above the adjacent sea.

but nearby, within a circle of a hundred miles radius, there are other volcanoes with more or less residual life, which, with Shishaldin, form a group so favorably situated for exploration that its systematic study could be accomplished without great expense and in a short field season.

Pogrumnois, on the western end of Unamak, is extinct, but on Akutan, the next island, there is an active volcano of the same name.

One unusually favorable day in August 1892, Mr. Charles H. Townsend of the United States Fish Commission and I climbed one of the peaks at Unalaska Bay, which brought Akutan in full view.

To our great surprise, we saw gigantic rings of smoke, such as sometimes come in miniature from the smokestacks of locomotives.

And then, in the summer of 1942, they got help they didn't expect.

On June 4, 1942, a Japanese naval aviator named Tadeo Shikoga was flying during the attack on Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands.

His Zero took battle damage.

He attempted a forced landing on Akatan Island, a place the Japanese had pre-designated as an emergency landing zone.

The cruise of the bear in 1895 was over much the same course as in previous years.

After patrolling the North Pacific during May and June, the bear left the wharf at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, on June 24th for her Arctic trip.

The next day she sighted through the fog first St. George Island and then St. Paul.

The sea being too rough to land, the ship pushed on to the northwest, passing St. Matthew Island on June 26th, and reaching Anchorage at St. Lawrence Island on June 28.

At 4 a.m. on September 5th, the bear was again underway.

September 6th, St. Matthew and Hall Islands were passed, and on the 7th, anchor was dropped at St. Paul Island, where on the 8th a landing was made for a few hours.

On September 9th, a similar landing was made at St. George Island, and at noon on September 11th, anchor was dropped in Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, closing the Arctic cruise of 1895.

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According to Mel Avidoff, they've already received grants for projects that include deploying and recovering drones and locating crab pots around the island with sonar.

In Unalaska, I'm Katie Ruther.

Support for the Alaska Fisheries Report is provided by the Stosh and Claudia Anderson Fund.

In recognition of the fishing industry, which provides more than 50,000 Alaskan jobs from a renewable source.

Custom job.

The fabricator in Unalaska had welded the mounting plate at a slight angle.

Brian never had it fixed because the crane worked fine and he was cheap.

The angle was there.

The hydraulic lines degraded to bare cable.

I recognized the hull patch on the port side.

We'd hit a dock piling in Unalaska Bay last spring, took out two plates below the waterline.

The yard welded a repair slightly thicker than the surrounding hull.

but the man who knows a larger part of them has not only learned fish, but a host of other things as well.

He calls to mind rosy-spotted trout of the Maine woods and still rosier of many brooks of Unalaska.

He has seen the blue parrotfishes of the Cuban reefs and the leaping grayling of the Gallatin and the Au Sable.

He has tried the Incanu of the McKenzie River and the tarpon of the Florida reefs.

So here you're talking about 33 years into this purchase.

in 1900 there were very very few americans here in fact when judge wickersham tried to put together a jury trial for a murder charge and he was going to try the case i think the murder happened down in dutch harbor he was going to try the case but he could only find 12 qualified jurors in the entire state of alaska this is how few americans were here in 1900 Now, things began to change.

Of course, there was a gold brush that took place in.

And at Nome at 1 time, it exploded with this gold rush and there was so many people, there were more people in known that there were in San Francisco when San Francisco was initially forming.

It's way out at the end of that long beard called the Aleutian chain.

It's the last island out there, Attu.

And if the Japanese could secure Attu, they wouldn't secure Attu against the United States with the idea of let's go take Adak and, you know, let's go take Dutch Harbor and then we'll work our way up the Aleutian chain and invade and, you know, try to capture Nagiski.

No, instead, I think they were trying to get a foothold on Attu in order to outflank the Russians in respect of the Kirill Islands.