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Bookmark or Share- The Coldest Place in North America - Geophysical InstituteThe 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).
- Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in AlaskaAbandoned 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.
- Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum - Geophysical InstituteAlaska 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.
- Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map - Geophysical InstituteEvery 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.
- Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer - Geophysical InstituteBiologist 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.
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