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Bookmark or Share- A possible rat sighting on an Alaska island prompts a monthslong search ...A purported sighting of a rat wouldn’t get much attention in many places around the world. But it caused a stir earlier this year on Alaska's St. Paul Island. The island is part of the Pribilofs, a birding haven sometimes called the “Galapagos of the north” for its diversity of life.
- Pribilof Islands - WikipediaThe Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands; Aleut: Amiq, [1] Russian: Острова Прибылова, romanized: Ostrova Pribylova) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles (320 km) north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham.
- Pribilof Islands | Wildlife, Fur Seals & Aleutian IslandsPribilof Islands, archipelago, off the west coast of Alaska, U.S. The islands include St. Paul (40 square miles [104 square km]), St. George (35 square miles [91 square km]), and two islets (Otter and Walrus islands) lying in the Bering Sea, about 300 miles (500 km) west of the Alaska mainland and.
- The Pribilof Islands - Alaska MagazineThe Pribilof Islands consist of two main islands, St. Paul and St. George, and three smaller islands: Otter, Walrus, and Sea Lion. Only St. Paul and St. George are inhabited. St. Paul is the largest island and at only eight miles wide by fourteen miles long is not very large. The Pribilof Islands were discovered in 1786 by Russian fur traders.
- Visit the Pribilof Islands, Alaska - Audley TravelVisit the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Lying in the midst of the Bering Sea, the islands of St. Paul and St. George are together known as the Pribilof Islands. These desolate, foggy and windswept islands are overrun with wildlife and each summer a million fur seals, the largest gathering of sea mammals in the world, swim ashore to breed on the ...
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