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Journey to St. Matthew Island The Most Remote Place in Alaska By Marc Romano and Heather Renner

Journey to St. Matthew Island The Most Remote Place in Alaska By Marc Romano and Heather Renner. St. Matthew Is. Mekoryuk. > 200 miles. Pribilof Is. First discovered by the Russians in 1764. Visited by the Harriman Expedition in 1899. Protected as a bird refuge by Teddy Roosevelt in 1909.

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Journey to St. Matthew Island The Most Remote Place in Alaska By Marc Romano and Heather Renner

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  1. Journey to St. Matthew Island The Most Remote Place in Alaska By Marc Romano and Heather Renner

  2. St. Matthew Is. Mekoryuk > 200miles Pribilof Is.

  3. First discovered by the Russians in 1764 • Visited by the Harriman Expedition in 1899 • Protected as a bird refuge by Teddy Roosevelt in 1909 • Included as part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980 Photo Ned Rozell

  4. Hall Island Camp Bull Seal Point Camp NASA Photo

  5. St. Matthew Expedition Crew

  6. Photo Ian Jones

  7. St. Matthew Island Reindeer Population

  8. “We landed on St. Matthew Island early on a cold gray August morning, and judge our astonishment at finding hundreds of large polar bears . . . lazily sleeping in grassy hollows, or digging up grass and other roots, browsing like hogs.”-Henry Wood Elliott 1875

  9. VS. USFWS Photo Photo Rich Kleinleder

  10. Map courtesy of American Geographical Society Library

  11. Photo Ned Rozell

  12. Photos Rich Kleinleder

  13. Photo Monte Garroute

  14. Photos by Derek Sikes

  15. 2012 St. Matthew Island • Expedition Participants • Marianne Aplin – USFWS • Casey Bickford – UAF • Steve Delehanty – USFWS • Tony DeGange – USGS • Monte Garroute – UAF • Dennis Griffin – State of Oregon • David Klein – UAF • Rich Kleinleder – URS Corp. • Aaron Poe – USFWS • Heather Renner – USFWS • Marc Romano – USFWS • Ned Rozell – UAF • Derek Sikes – UAF • Special thanks to the crew of • the M/V Tiglax

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