“This incident makes two things clear: First, the Russian people don’t want to fight Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine," Sullivan said. “Second, given Alaska’s proximity to Russia, our state has a vital role to play in securing America’s national security.” Murkowski said...
Lend-lease aircraft would occasionally land at Mile 26, but there are no indications any lend-lease aircraft ever used the airfield to take off for Russia. Then when the war ended Mile 26 closed. The base reopened in September 1946, once again as a satellite of Ladd Field. A year later...
While we observed them in Port Fidalgo, they have been known to travel as far south as Northern California and as far west as Russia and Japan. Their feedstock is more varied than their common name suggests and includes herring, squid and salmon, among the dozens of fish they feed upon. ...
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The church was originally built in the 1840s but was rebuilt in 1976 following a fire, and it’s one of the best representations of Russia’s cultural influence in Alaska in the 19th century. Note: St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral requests a $5 donation per visitor. Looking for ...
anthrax believed to have come from a long-dead reindeer buried in warming groundkilled a 12-year-old boyand sickened many other people in Russia’s Yamal Peninsula. Years before that tragedy, Russian scientists, in a2011 study, warned about the risk posed by anthrax-poisoned re...
The first European to locate Kiska Island was the Danish navigator in Russian service Vitus Bering, who spotted it on 25 October 1741 on his return to Russia during the Great Northern Expedition (1735–42). Russian hunting parties soon followed suit, but a lack of commentary about Kiska in ...
(making it the only state to border a Canadian territory); the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest; the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west; and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters ...
with rifting of this arc are widespread (e.g., Ambler district; Hitzman et al.1986; Newberry et al.1997). This ocean, referred to as the South Anyui ocean in Russia and the Angayucham ocean south of the Brooks Range, expanded southward through the Triassic. During the Late Devonian ...
From Magadan, Russia, to Mazatlan Mexico, and all points between, the "Mad Dogs" helped make Alaska Airlines what it is today during their 23 years of service. As we bid farewell to the MD-80, we salute our Alaska Airlines crews and the customers who flew with us along the way. Our...