St Paul Island
St. Paul IslandPaul Island introduction, including current color code, height, width and length, synonyms, squares, webicorder and current activities. St. Paul lies on a narrow peninsula at the southern tip of the island of St. Paul, the largest of the five islands of the Pribilof.
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Saint-Paul Island is the biggest of the Pribilof Isles, a group of four volcanoes in the Bering Sea between the United States and Russia. St. Paul is the only area on the island where people live. There are three closest islets to Saint Paul Island: Otter Island in the SW, Saint George in the SW, and Walrus Island in the SES.
St. Paul Island has a surface area of 40 sq. km (100 km2). St. Paul Island currently has a K-12 college (100 students), a postal service, a small shop and a local Orthodox St. Peter and Paul churches registered in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Most of the low-lying island of Saint Paul is littered with small boulders and vegetation-covered sands. The first non-native people to find St. Paul were hustlers from Russia. Gavriil Pribylov found the island on July 12, 1788. Saint Paul Island, colonies of seals in the front, St. Paul Village in the faraway.
A few inhabitants of the island remain only a part of the year and work in the shrimp and boatyards. Large vessels that fished the Bering Sea unload their catch on the island and the workmen are preparing it for worldwide transport. Indigenous people of the island (Aleutian tribe), who make up the overwhelming part of the island's people, are Russian Orthodox when they consider themselves to be of worship.
The first TDX Power power plant was constructed on St. Paul Island. This 37 m high windmill is an important point of honor for the environmentally aware Aleutian parish of Saint Paul. This island is the setting for the Rudyard Kipling tale "The White Seal" and the poet Lukannon in the Jungle Book.
Fur seals and fur seals of the North Pacific. Monograph of the Sealed Islands. Bering Land Bridge. Alaska' s climate. University of Alaska Press, p. 160. ST PAUL ISLAND APP. Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge : U.S. Wildlife Service. Kristine J. Crossen, "5,700-year-old Mammoth from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska:
"Med-Holocene carbon radiological specimens of Middle Holocene mutts beached on an island on the Alaska Bering Sea." alaska: Saya of a bold land. Alaska and the Seal Islands. "St. Paul Island."