Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical Institute
2016年10月13日 · Every person in the village of York, west of Wales, died due to the flu. In just one week, 72 of 80 people died in Brevig Mission (which is still a village). Many orphans moved to missions like the one at Pilgrim Springs, which itself became abandoned after those orphans grew up. U.S. government officials forced the move of villagers several times.
Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska
2010年12月8日 · Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska December 08, 2010 / Ned Rozell On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens.
The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical Institute
2003年1月23日 · The temperature at Snag was unavailable; Canadians had abandoned the airstrip in 1967. × Photo: Meteorologist Jim Brader of the National Weather Service office in Fairbanks, Alaska on his way to Snag, Yukon Territory, Canada (Ned Rozell photo).
Re-use of mining or gravel pit - Cyburbia
2011年9月21日 · Quincy quarries in Quincy, MA were abandoned for years and became a kind of death trap/Darwin Award contest for cliff divers. As I understand it, many of them were filled in with leftover dirt from the Big Dig project, and the rest are a state park.
When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute
Six-thousand reindeer lived here on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea in 1963. By the 1980s, zero reindeer remained.
Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer - Geophysical Institute
2010年1月7日 · Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Institute of Arctic Biology, hiked the length of the island with field assistant Jim Whisenhant in 1957.
Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum - Geophysical Institute
2016年3月24日 · Alaska has its own ghost ship. Workers for the Hudson Bay Company abandoned the S.S. Baychimo just offshore of Wainwright 85 years ago. Sea ice trapped the 230-foot cargo steamship during an early winter in October 1931. The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo.
"Abandoned" buildings | Cyburbia | urban planning, placemaking, …
2007年5月23日 · We are re-writeing the zoning code for a 260 year old 25,000 population Southern town with only a 50 year zoning history. In reviewing existing codes, we found a lengty paragraph allowing for the demolition of "Abandoned" buildings but no definition of what constitutes "Abandoned". Evidently...
Bus 142 to embark on final journey - Geophysical Institute
2021年10月28日 · Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and Preserve. In 1992, 24-year-old Christopher McCandless discovered what …
Don't Build On A Glacier's Right-Of-Way - Geophysical Institute
2024年11月27日 · Many others suffered damage due to glacial flooding and avalanches, and some were simply abandoned out of despair. Somewhat later, during the first part of the 18th century, the cycle of glacial advance arrived in Norway and Iceland. Here, as in the Alps, homes and buildings were abandoned as the ice approached.